Where is the growing conflict between copyright and fundamental rights headed?
Jake Campbell · Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice · 2021
Copyright and Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age Oreste Pollicino, Giovanni Maria Riccio and Marco Bassini Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020 ISBN: 9781788113878, Hard cover, pp. 288 Price: £95.00 (also available as an eBook) The struggle between copyright and the freedoms of expression and privacy was a conflict born in the analogue age. The explosion in popularity of the internet over the past few decades means that these rights and freedoms take on new meaning and their preservation faces new challenges. While the ‘digital age’ has been around for some time, it is important to analyse how we have arrived at the current European copyright framework, what needs to change, and where it might be headed. This is...