Danbury (2016)
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Danbury (2016) | |
Title: | Is an EU publishers’ right a good idea? Final report on the AHRC project: Evaluating potential legal responses to threats to the production of news in a digital era |
Author(s): | Danbury, R. |
Year: | 2016 |
Citation: | Danbury, R. (2016). Is an EU publishers’ right a good idea? Final report on the AHRC project: Evaluating potential legal responses to threats to the production of news in a digital era, https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.law.cam.ac.uk/files/images/www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/copyright_and_news/danbury_publishers_right_report.pdf |
Link(s): | Definitive , Open Access |
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Linked by: | Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (2016) |
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Data Type: | Secondary data |
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Cross Country Study?: | Yes |
Comparative Study?: | No |
Literature review?: | No |
Government or policy study?: | Yes |
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Abstract
This is a discussion about commercial news production, and copyright-related laws in Europe. It is a response to the consultation opened by the European Commission in March 2016 about whether to create an EU-wide neighbouring right, in the copyright family of intellectual property rights, that will benefit publishers. It examines four arguments for a news publishers’ right. These are:
• it will provide a necessary incentive to the commercial production of news, an activity that is valuable to a democratic society; • commercial news publishers are treated unequally by EU copyright law, and a publishers’ right will resolve this; • online re-distributors of published news are free riding on the effort of commercial news publishers, and a publishers’ right can be expected to restrain this; • commercial news publishers have a natural right to the news they publish, and such rights are being breached by online re-distributors of news: a publishers’ right can be expected to protect them.
Main Results of the Study
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Sample size: | 15 |
Level of aggregation: | Copyright cases |
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