[A2k] "Best Practice Guide - Implementing the EU Copyright Directive in the Digital Age"

[Soenke Zehle]

From: Rebecca Tabasky <rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu>

Hello,

Should you have any questions about the following report, please do not
hesitate to contact Dr. Urs Gasser at <ugasser@cyber.law.harvard.edu> or
Silke Ernst at <silke.ernst@unisg.ch>.

Thanks and all the best,
Becca

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A new report by Berkman Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser and Berkman affiliate
Silke Ernst (both at the St. Gallen Research Center for Information Law)
provides a set of recommendations for transposing the EU Copyright
Directive (EUCD) into the national copyright frameworks of accession
states and candidate countries. The guide, which could also inform
future law reform in existing member states and is related to
stock-taking studies such as the Gowers Report and the forthcoming
official review of the EU Copyright Framework, is sponsored by the Open
Society Institute (OSI) and builds upon prior work by the Berkman
Center's Digital Media Project.  The study, focusing on digital
copyright, includes specific recommendations in controversial areas such
as DRM anti-circumvention frameworks, private copying exceptions,
teaching exceptions, exceptions for disabled people, exceptions for
archives and libraries, as well as recommendations on issues such as
reporting on current events, the quotation right, and provisions on
caricature and parody, among others.

"Best Practice Guide: Implementing the EU Copyright Directive in the
Digital Age" is available as a PDF at the Berkman Center Site:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/1112/EUCD_Best_Practice_Guide_December_2006.pdf>


* About Urs Gasser: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/urs_gasser>
* About Silke Ernst:
<http://www.fir.unisg.ch/org/fir/web.nsf/d638de4e02e667cac12568f0002661cf/a9956839310bad1cc125707400379aed?OpenDocument>

* About the St. Gallen Research Center for Information Law:
<www.fir.unisg.ch>
* About the Gowers Report:
<http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectual_property/gowersreview_index.cfm>

* About the Digital Media Project: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/>
* Prior Research: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/eucd>