Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It - IVIR
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"Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It
Academics from all over Europe give a final warning against the ill-conceived plans for the introduction of a new intellectual property right in news. Read the full letter here in pdf, or below.
First signatories
Further signatories on 25.04.2018
Statement from EU Academics on Proposed Press Publishers’ Right
We, the undersigned 169 scholars [of whom 100 are full professors] working in the fields of intellectual property, internet law, human rights law and journalism studies at universities all over Europe write to oppose the proposed press publishers’ right. Article 11 of the proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, as it currently stands following negotiations in the EU Council and Parliament, is a bad piece of legislation...."