Ingezonden door Martin Senftleben, Instituut voor Informatierecht (IViR), Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Martin Senftleben: EU Copyright 20 Years After the InfoSoc Directive
Onderstaand artikel is een abstract. De paper van Martin Senftleben kunt u hier downloaden.
EU copyright legislation has cultivated the constraining function of the three-step test known from Article 9(2) of the Berne Convention, Article 13 TRIPS and Article 10 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Instead of transposing into EU law the dualistic concept of these international provisions – the enabling function that creates room for the adoption of copyright limitations at the national level as well as the constraining function that sets limits to domestic copyright limitations – Article 5(5) of the 2001 Information Society Directive and Article 7(2) of the 2019 Digital Single Market Directive reduce the three-step test to the constraining function that further restricts copyright limitations and exceptions (L&Es) which are circumscribed precisely anyway. In the EU, the three-step test cannot be invoked as an instrument to extend the scope of L&Es or create new L&Es to avoid overbroad copyright protection. The jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) enhances the constraining effect by placing the three-step test in the context of the obligation to interpret L&Es strictly and allowing the balancing of copyright protection against competing fundamental freedoms only within the statutory system of rights and limitations in EU copyright law.