Ensuring Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age: Discussing the EU’s New Copyright Reforms Package

The emergence of digital technologies is transforming the way of producing, distributing and accessing creative content in the EU. With copyright-intensive industries representing almost 11.6 millions of jobs - 5.4% of employment in the EU - and 6.8% of EU GDP (Factsheet, European Commission, 2018), the EU has recently proposed a new set of copyright reforms that aim to ensure a better functioning of the copyright marketplace; to increase the cross-border access to content online; and to assure wider opportunities to use copyrighted materials in education, research and culture heritage.