Copyright is undergoing serious scrutiny and pressure these days. Some describe the copyright system as “flawed” in a recently published Copyright Manifesto. A draft own-initiative report presented to the European Parliament by MEP Julia Reda earlier this year calls for more exceptions and limitations without any compensation for rightsholders. A handful are interested in having […]
Last month, the Juncker Commission announced that the modernization of Europe’s copyright directive (the “InfoSoc Directive”) is one of the key priorities in the development of a digital single market. Since the adoption of the Directive in 2001, some have argued that the current European copyright rules are not only outdated, but also inappropriate for […]
In the newest edition of the biennial EMMA magazine, Karen Taylor interviews Dr. Christoph Fiedler, Managing Director for European Affairs and Media at VDZ (the German Federation of Magazine Publishers) and Chairman of EMMA’s Legal Affairs Committee. This interview deals with the challenges of ‘Upholding press freedom in a digital world’. Dr. Fiedler perfectly sums […]
In the latest edition of our bi-weekly news roundup (the earlier posts can be read here), Susan Clandillon shares the news that caught her eye in the past two weeks. The news round-up is a way for the Future Media Lab. team and members of the Future Media Lab. network to share articles about innovations and developments in […]
In the latest edition of our bi-weekly news roundup (the earlier posts can be read here), Susan Clandillon shares the news that caught her eye in the past two weeks. The news round-up is a way for the Future Media Lab. team and members of the Future Media Lab. network to share articles about innovations […]
In the third edition of our bi-weekly news roundup (the first can be read here), Karin Fleming shares the news that caught her eye in the past two weeks. The news round-up is a way for the Future Media Lab. team and members of the Future Media Lab. network to share articles about innovations and […]
The Future Media Lab. introduced a new feature on the Future Media Lab. blog: the bi-weekly news round-up. From Axel Springer’s CEO’s open letter to Google, the hit that net neutrality recently took in the United States, to shape-shifting devices and and wearable technology, Karin Fleming, Communications/Administration Officer at EMMA/FML shares what she’s been reading this week.
