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The European Union (EU) directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, commonly known as the EU Copyright Directive or short EUCD, is the EU's implementation of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty. May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ...
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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The WIPO Copyright Treaty, adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996, provides additional protections for copyright deemed necessary in the modern information era. ...
This highly controversial Directive was, at that time, the most heavily lobbied measure to pass the European Parliament. In its final form, it includes only very narrow exceptions to anti-circumvention measures and exclusive rights. As a result, it is generally regarded as a victory for copyright-owning interests (publishing, film, music and major software companies) over copyright users' interests (who, during the lobbying process, were primarily represented by librarians and not by consumer organizations). A European Union Directive is the (mutally binding) collective decision made by the member states, acting through their national Government Ministers in the Council of the European Union and the Parliament. ...
The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ...
In law, an exclusive right is the power or right to perform an action in relation to an object or other thing which others cannnot perform. ...
Consumer organizations are organizations that seek to protect people from corporate abuse. ...
Many important details are not specified in the Directive, and as a result, EU member states have significant freedom in certain aspects of directive implementation. The resulting lack of harmonisation in the member states' copyright regimes has led the chairman of the European Commission's Legal Advisory Board Taskforce on Intellectual Property to state that the directive is "unimportant, and possibly invalid". EU member states and candidates There are currently 25 member states in the European Union. ...
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The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ...
Due to escalating public awareness of the importance of copyright legislation, the process of implementation has not been entirely predictable.
Member states which have implemented the Directive to date:
Member states which have not (yet) implemented the Directive to date: Lex Karpela is a nickname for the bill HE 2004/28 to amend Finnish Copyright Act and Criminal Code which the countrys parliament accepted in a voting on 5 October 2005. ...
See also The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law. ...
FSF Europes logo The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the official european sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe. ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit advocacy and legal organization with the stated purpose of being dedicated to preserving first amendment rights in the context of todays digital age. ...
The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ...
The Directive on harmonizing the term of copyright protection was a European Union (EU) copyright directive issued in 1993. ...
The following is a List of European Union directives: // Intellectual property Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (2001/29/EC May 22, 2001) Criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (proposed) Enforcement of intellectual property rights (2004/48/EC...
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