CREATe’s Director Prof. Martin Kretschmer presents today at the European Parliament (December 7) a Study on the proposed press publishers right (and also on 3 articles that are designed to improve the position of authors). To be live streamed, Kretschmer’s session ‘The copyright directive: strengthening theĀ position of press publishers and authors & performers’, where he speaks with Prof. Lionel Bently (Cambridge University), is part of the EU Parliament’s Workshop for the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI).
Link to The Study (seeĀ here)
Workshop Programme (see here)
Agenda of Committee (see here)
Recent reporting on Bently and Kretschmer’s study:
Julia Reda MEP:
https://juliareda.eu/2017/10/publishers-oppose-link-tax/
https://juliareda.eu/2017/12/extra-news-copyright-confusion/
CREATe EU policy work (see here)
EIPR article (based on CREATe Public Lectures) outlining key arguments:
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