[A2k] Europen Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) Best Practice Guide Released]

[Michelle Childs]

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Subject: [ipr] Europen Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) Best Practice
Guide Released
From:    "Vera Franz" <vfranz@osieurope.org>
Date:    Thu, December 7, 2006 12:50 pm
To:      "ipr&publicdomain" <ipr@mailhost.soros.org>
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EUCD Best Practice Guide Released (December 7, 2006)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/1112/EUCD_Best_Practice_Guide_December_2006.pdf
or via www.fir.unisg.ch

A new report sponsored by the Open Society Institute (OSI) 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 authored by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst (Univ. of
St. Gallen and Berkman Center) and is based on a peer-produced
compilation and comparison of existing EUCD implementations across the EU.

The report focuses on "digital copyright" issues and suggests principles
aimed at establishing best practices with regard to user autonomy and
peer collaboration, diversity, and political and cultural participation.
The study 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.




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Vera Franz
Program Manager
Information Program
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Open Society Foundation
100, Cambridge Grove
London W6 0LE
phone +44 20 7031 0219
fax +44 20 7031 0247



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