Gambino: "La riforma copyright danneggerà tutti, editori compresi" | Agenda Digitale

[google transl.] Gambino: "Copyright reform will harm everyone, including publishers."

The reform of European copyright which has just been approved by the EU Parliament introduces the so-called ancillary copyright. This is fair compensation for publishers, but it risks penalising them, as well as competition and innovation in the market. That is why

The reform of European copyright which has just been approved by the EU Parliament introduces the so-called ancillary copyright. This is the possibility for publishers to charge a fee for the publication of snippets (short extracts) of their articles, allowing them to obtain a fee.

Indeed, with the rapid and substantial change in the way cultural content is accessed online, as well as its increasingly critical distribution of remuneration, there has been a considerable increase in the supply of content, with the multiplication of the ways in which it is accessed and the emergence of new major digital players in the market.