Communication from the Commission on content in the Digital Single Market

The digital economy has been a major driver of growth in the past two decades, and is expected to grow seven times faster than overall EU GDP in coming years. Online there are new ways of providing, creating and distributing content, and new ways to generate value. The emergence of new business models capitalising on the potential of the internet to deliver content represents a challenge and an opportunity for the creative industries, authors and artists as well as for the other actors in the digital economy.

Against this backdrop, one of the Commission's objectives is to ensure that copyright and copyright-related practices, such as licensing, stay fit for purpose in this new digital context.

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