We are happy to announce a book launch for The Cambridge Handbook of Media Law and Policy in Europe (CUP 2026) edited by our IViR colleagues: Martin Senftleben, Kristina Irion, Tarlach McGonagle and Joost Poort taking place on 8th October, 2-4pm (UK time) in Amsterdam and online. Registration for the event is available here.
The Handbook brings together contributions of human rights, media law and copyright law scholars to analyse pressing legal and policy issues that have arisen in the rapidly changing media ecosystem to pave the way for new, integrated regulatory framework for news and media in Europe.
CREATe’s Ula Furgał and Martin Kretschmer contributed to the Handbook. Their chapter on Bargaining in the Shadow of the Press Publishers’ Right (Chapter 16) discusses the four main approaches to operationalisation of the press publishers’ right in the European Union, alongside the bargaining framework that evolved in Australia. The press publishers’ right (art. 15 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive) equips publishers with a legal basis for negotiations with digital intermediaries, leaving the process of bargaining at the discretion of the EU Member States and the market. The chapter analyses existing bargaining frameworks in the light of the ‘bargaining in the shadow of the law’ perspective, to understand the relationship between statutory law and private bargaining as mediated by institutional frameworks. It argues that the range and the frequency of the agreements between press publishers and digital platforms can be explained within this bargaining context.
The Chapter has previously been published as a CREATe Working Paper.
The entire Handbook can be accessed open access here.
