The European "Extended Collective Licensing" Model

Thank you for the invitation. It is a pleasure for me to speak on the topic of extended collective licenses ("ECL"), a model for managing copyright which is typical for Scandinavian countries. Although my Danish is a bit rusty—not to speak of my Swedish—I come from Belgium, a country which is neither a Nordic nor a Southern European country, but which at least has a strong experience with collective bargaining. It is difficult to understand the model of ECLs without the background of collective bargaining (in a country like the United States, private agreements rather than collective bargaining do play a prominent role). Belgian culture in the field of industrial relations is one in which labor issues are solved with collective agreements; this is possible because of the existence of very strong organizations representing employers and employees and the possibility for the collective agreements concluded between those organizations to be extended by law to third parties. The ECL model relies on the willingness and experience of parties to engage in collective bargaining

Ensuring text and data mining : remaining issues with the EU copyright exceptions and possible ways out

This article updates and expands the work presented in A. Strowel and R. Ducato, “Artificial intelligence and text and data mining: a copyright carol” in E. Rosati (ed.), Handbook of EU Copyright Law, Routledge, forthcoming 2021. A sincere thanks to Roberto Caso and Ula Furgal for the constructive discussion on an early draft of this article. The authors have jointly conceived the paper and share the views expressed therein. Nonetheless, while Section 4 is attributable to Alain Strowel, Section 3 is specifically attributable to Rossana Ducato. Both authors equally contributed to the drafting of the remaining sections.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Legal Design Perspectives : Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field

This publication and its release in gold open access has been made possible thanks to the support of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module grant 599987-EPP-1-2018-1-BE-EPPJMO-MODULE for the course “European IT Law by Design”. The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.Publisher PD

A luta contra o carregamento ilícito: à espera do sucesso da oferta lícita

Por se tratar de um décimo aniversário – felicitações à Propriétés intellectuelles! –, regressemos à última década que viu o direito de autor medir forças com a formidável máquina de copiar e de trocar obras que é a Internet. Numerosas foram as respostas jurídicas que foram imaginadas para lutar contra o carregamento ilícito ou legalizar a circulação não autorizada de obras protegidas nas redes e que vão da resposta gradual à adopção de novas excepções, passando por diversas formas de licença global ou de gestão colectiva obrigatória. Que ensinamentos podemos tirar delas

Direitos intelectuais em modo pós-Brexit: quo vadis Britannia?

Muitas incertezas subsistem, como os desenvolvimentos acima o demonstram. Existem múltiplas maneiras de resolver os efeitos do Brexit no domínio da propriedade intelectual. Será necessário fazer o ponto da situação acerca das consequências do Brexit em relação aos direitos intelectuais em pouco menos de dois anos

Balancing Copyright - Belgian Report

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Panel: Collective Licensing for Digitizing Analog Materials

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Policy framework for digital platforms : moving from openness to inclusion : protection of users in the platform economy : a European perspective

The research report offers a comparative analysis of problems suffered by digital platform users in their daily-life transactions, namely practices and threats that are exclusionary or unfair under legal frameworks, as well as underlying gaps in protection, and practicable solutions. It focuses on the inequalities (understood as information asymmetries affecting the weak party), and unfair practices experienced by end-users and suppliers of online platforms