Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It | Nexa Center for Internet & Society

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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. ...

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...."

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https://nexa.polito.it/academics-against-press-publishers-right/%23signatories

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Date tagged:

04/28/2018, 11:21

Date published:

04/28/2018, 07:22