European Copyright Society's General Opinion on the EU Copyright Reform Package

European Copyright Society, 'General Opinion on the EU Copyright Reform Package', 24 januari 2017. In  the  first  part  we  make  a  number  of  overarching observations on the entire copyright reform package [Voorstel Richtlijn Digital Single Market, 14september2016, COM(2016)593 final, 2016/0280(COD)]. Thereafter, we submit specific comments on a number of substantive issues addressed by the proposals. (...) The European  Copyright  Society  does,  however,  have  a  number  of  general  concerns  about the copyright reform package.

Part 1. General observations as the lack of ambition; Private ordering; Fragmented approach; The sharing economy; Method.
Part 2. Substantive comments on Text and data mining (art. 3 DSM Directive); Neighbouring right for news publishers (art.11 DSM Directive); ‘Reprobel article’ (art. 12 DSM Directive); Platform liability (art. 13 DSM Directive); Fair remuneration in contracts of authors and performers (DSM Directive, art. 14-15)

Lees de gehele opinie (hier)

Signatories :
Prof. Valérie-Laure Benabou, Professor, University of Aix -Marseille , France
Prof. Lionel Bently, Professor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prof. Estelle Derclaye, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Prof. Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Director, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIP RC), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier, Director, Institute for Information and Economic Law, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Prof. Séverine Dusollier, Professor, School of Law, Sciences -Po Paris, France
Prof. Christophe Geiger, Director, Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg, France
Prof. Jonathan Griffiths, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Prof. Reto Hilty, Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany
Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz, Director, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Marie -Christine Janssens, Professor Intellectual Property Law, University of Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Martin Kretschmer, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Glasgow, and Director, CREATe, United Kingdom
Prof. Axel Metzger, Professor of Civil and Intellectual Property Law, Humboldt -Universität Berlin
Prof. Alexander Peukert, Goethe- Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Prof. Marco Ricolfi, Chair of Intellectual Property, Turin Law School, Italy
Prof. Ole -Andreas Rognstad , Professor of Law, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Prof. Martin Senftleben, Professor of Intellectual Property, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Alain Strowel, Professor, Saint -Louis University and UCLouvain, Belgium
Prof. Raquel Xalabarder, Chair on Intellectual Property, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Michel Vivant, Professor, School of Law, Sciences -Po Paris, France