http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/studies/index_en.htm#131216 In its Intellectual Property Strategy "A Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights" <http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/intellectual-property/strategy/index_en....> the Commission announced a series of initiatives to foster the creation of a comprehensive framework for copyright in the digital single market. Within this process, the Commission launched a number of legal and economic studies on certain aspects of the legal framework, as referenced in the "Communication on Content in the Digital Single Market <http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/licensing-europe/index_en.htm#...>". The "Study on the application of Directive 2001/29/EC on copyright and related rights in the information society <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:NO...>", prepared by a Belgian law firm De Wolf & Partners (Framework Contract PN/2009-35/D), comprises an assessment of the extent to which the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC is appropriate to the economic and technological realities of digital markets. The focus of this study is on the exclusive rights (the "making available right" and its localisation, and other aspects of rights related to transmissions of content in digital networks) as well as on a number of key limitations and exceptions (libraries and archives, research and educational purposes, persons with a disability, user-generated content, and press review). This Study is the first of the series to be published. The remaining studies will be published as soon as they are finalised. * Studypdf <http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/studies/131216_study_en.p...>
