Research handbook on the future of EU copyright

It has been over fifteen years since the EU started harmonising copyright law. Research Handbook on the Future of EU Copyright takes stock and questions what the future of EU copyright should be. What went wrong with the harmonisation acquis? What did the directives do well? Should copyright be further harmonised?

Each of the 25 recognised copyright experts from different European countries gives a critical account of the EU harmonisation carried out on several aspects of copyright law (subject-matter, originality, duration, rights, defences etc.), and asks whether further harmonisation is desirable or not. In this way, the Handbook not only gives guidance to European institutions as to what remains to be done or needs to be remedied but is also the first overall picture of current and future EU copyright law.

The Handbook will be of interest to academics and intellectual property lawyers, as well as general commercial lawyers, across Europe because it reviews European directives in the field of copyright and also the relationships between copyright and other laws. Policymakers will also find much to interest them in the discussions regarding the future of EU copyright law and the proposed amendments to the existing legal framework.

Contents:

1. Copyright Without Frontiers: The Problem of Territoriality in European Copyright Law - P. Bernt Hugenholtz
2. Copyright’s Fundamental Rights Dimension at EU Level - Christophe Geiger
3. Subject Matter - Tanya Aplin
4. The Subject-Matter for Film Protection in Europe - Pascal Kamina
5. The Requirement of Originality - Ramón Casas Vallés
6. From Idea to Fixation: A View of Protected Works - Antoine Latreille
7. Duration of Copyright - Yves Gaubiac, Brigitte Lindner and John N. Adams
8. Authorship, Ownership, Wikiship: Copyright in the 21st Century - Jeremy Phillips
9. Economic Rights - Ansgar Ohly
10. Moral Rights - Willem Grosheide
11. The Moral Right of Integrity - Jacques de Werra
12. Dealing with Rights in Copyright-Protected Works: Assignments and Licences - Andreas Rahmatian
13. The Issue of Exceptions: Reshaping the Keys to the Gates in the Territory of Literary, Musical and Artistic Creation - Marie-Christine Janssens
14. Private Copy Levies and Technical Protection of Copyright: The Uneasy Accommodation of Two Conflicting Logics - Séverine Dusollier and Caroline Ker
15. Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights: Achievements and Problems of Institutional Effort Towards Harmonisation - Maria Mercedes Frabboni
16. Copyright Protection of Computer Programs - Jon Bing
17. The Protection of Databases - Matthias Leistner
18. Choice of Law in EU Copyright Directives - Paul Torremans
19. Overlap/Relationships between Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights - Antoon Quaedvlieg
20. Relationship between Copyright and Contract Law - Lucie Guibault
21. European Competition Law and Copyright: Where do we Stand? Where do we go? - Valérie Laure Benabou
22. Do Whiffs of Misappropriation and Standards for Slavish Imitation Weaken the Foundations of IP Law? - Anselm Kamperman Sanders
23. Access to Knowledge under the International Copyright Regime, the WIPO Development Agenda and the European Communities’ New External Trade and IP Policy - Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan