This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.
This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field. It is a timely contribution to the next steps of policy-making on copyright enforcement and Internet governance. The author brings to light tensions in how we encourage knowledge and cultural creation, and importantly how we regulate the Internet. In this study, online copyright enforcement is situated within the wider debate on Internet governance. Intermediary liability is a focal point. It provides an explanation of recent online copyright enforcement policy initiatives is based on an in-depth investigation of the ideas, interests, institutions and discourses involved in three EU level and two member state level initiatives. Seventy-two expert interviews complement the policy analysis conducted.
1. Introduction.-
2. The Internet Versus Copyright?-.
3. Creative
Content Online: 2008 European Commission Consultation.-4. HADOPI: 2009
Graduated Response in France.- 5. E-Commerce Directive: 2010 European
Commission Consultation.- 6. Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: 2010-2012
European Parliament Discussions.- 7. Lessons Learned: Online Copyright
Enforcement in the European Union.- 8. Conclusion.
Trisha Meyer is Assistant Professor at Vesalius College, Belgium, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on intellectual property rights and Internet governance in the European Union.
