Institutional and Legal Improvements in the Digital Single Market: is there room to improve EU Copyright?

This panel will explore the existing policy problems and the possible options for reforming the EU copyright framework as provided by EU Directive 29/2001 on Copyright in the Information Society (InfoSoc Directive) and related legislation, with a specific focus on the need to strengthen the Internal Market for creative content.

According to the most recent reports provided by CPES researchers, there are two main policy problems: i) the absence of a Digital Single Market for creative works; and ii) the increasing tension between the current system of exceptions and limitations and the legal treatment of emerging uses of copyrighted content in the online environment. This panel seeks to focus on more specific and detailed policy options for copyright and the Internal Market perspective.

Speakers: Rodrigo Cetina, Adjunct Professor, City University of New York; David Pascual Ezama, Assitant Professor of Business Administration, UCM; Jose M. Martinez Sierra, Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government and RCC Director; David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Institute for Global Law and Policy Director, Harvard Law School.