This fourth blog in a series of five looks at the European Commission’s plans for “Creating a fairer marketplace”.
Background
The Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy – presented in May 2015 – contains 16 initiatives in a variety of fields such as telecommunication, consumer rights and Big Data, each of which is intended to bring us one step closer to the European digital single market. Our DSM Watch team is a multi-jurisdiction, cross-practice group working together to keep you informed as the initiatives under the DSM strategy roll out.
One of the 16 initiatives focuses on copyright reform. On 9th December 2015, the European Commission presented its action plan “Towards a modern, more European copyright framework” which touches upon four different topics. Additionally, the Commission provided a draft Regulation on cross-border portability of online content services.
In the past few weeks, we have posted on “Widening access to content across the EU” (Part 1), the draft regulation on cross-border portability of online content (Part 2) and on copyright exceptions (Part 3). Here we take a closer look at “Creating a fairer marketplace”. Watch out here for our last blog post in the series, on “Fighting Piracy”.