The Quest for Pan-European Licensing Solution: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Year: 2009
Type: preprint
Abstract: Since its 1995 Green Paper, the European Commission has been anxious to foster Europe-wide on-line licensing systems for the trans-border management of copyright and related rights. This process, however, was by no means uneventful. Indeed, through the monitoring of various undertakings falling under the scope of art. 81 TCE, tumultuous relationships with the European Parliament leading to the publication of a Sibylline 2005 recommendation for on-line licensing, and the recent condemnation of the CISAC agreements for the management of on-line music rights, the European Commission, using competition law, dramatically changed the panorama of on-line - and potentially off-line - music licensing. Depuis son Livre Vert de 1995, la Commission Europeenne a souhaite faciliter le developpement de systemes de licences transfrontieres en matiere de droits d'auteur et droits voisins. Ce processus ne s'est toutefois pas deroule sans heurts. En effet, a travers le controle de multiples ententes potentielles, de tumultueuses relations avec le Parlement Europeen ayant mene a la publication d'une recommandation controversee et la recente decision concernant les modeles de contrats fournis par la Cisac, la Commission Europeenne, en ayant recours au droit de la concurrence, a dramatiquement change le panorama de la gestion de la musique en-ligne - et potentiellement hors-ligne.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Adriane Porcin
Institution: University of Manitoba
Language: English
Topic: Intellectual Property Law
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2198645337