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The European Commission has published a Communication entitled “Towards a more modern, more European copyright framework”, which it describes as a "political preview" that will be translated into legislative proposals and policy initiatives in the next six months. (See here for more details of the Communication, as well as the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on online content portability).
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In a recent speech at the University of Strasbourg on the future of copyright reform, Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip underlined, amongst other things, that the Commission is looking into the relationship between the creative sector and digital platforms.
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Earlier today, EMMA presented the first structured collaboration project organised by Europe’s publishers at a European Commission event on “media and big data” in Brussels. The AEMII programme -- short for “Accelerating European Media Innovation and Insights” -- brings 12 publishers from 7 EU Member States together with leading technology innovators and policy advisors in the creation of a joint open innovation platform, run by EMMA’s Future Media Lab..
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The draft EU directive on trade secrets, which was proposed by the Commission in 2013 and is currently under “trialogue” discussions between the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, has again come under fire.
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On Thursday 26 November the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council is expected to adopt its general approach on the Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Energy Labelling.
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On 12 November 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on a case between Hewlett-Packard Belgium and Reprobel, the Belgian collecting society responsible for the collection and distribution among authors and publishers of legal licence remunerations.
