Copyright law of the European Union
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The European Union has made various European Union directives on copyright law which member states are obliged to implement. The EUCD directive of May 22, 2001 has been controversial for similar reasons to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States. Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom have implemented the Directive to date. An additional Directive, the IP-Enforcement Directive, is alledged by some to make the situation even worse for consumers: welcomed by the music and film industries, it is contended to threaten online liberties as well as consumer interests.
See also: Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection
External links
- European Commission list of directives, proposals and reports. (http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/docs/)
- EUCD Status (ael.be) (http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status)
- http://www.eucd.org/
- http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/eucd/eucd.en.html
- IP-Enforcment Directive (ffii.org) (http://www.ffii.org/proj/euipd/)