“One of the most heatedly debated provisions during the process of approval of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD) has been, without a doubt, the new related right for press publishers (Article 15 CDSMD). Commentators and activists have harshly contested the validity of the ‘value gap’ argument advanced by stakeholders and put forward by the EU legislature. They argued that the introduction of a new right would create risks of overprotection, information monopolies and related harms to freedom of expression …”
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Caterina Sganga and Magali Contardi, The new Italian press publishers’ right: creative, fairness-oriented … and invalid?, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpac028. Published 8 April.
First posted 2022-04-11 08:30:02
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