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David Martin replaces Kader Arif, who quit position because of 'a lack of transparency'. David Martin, a British MEP from the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group, has...

Consumer groups and internet service providers welcome European Court of Justice judgment. The European Court of Justice today ruled that internet service providers (ISPs)...

Copyright changes could benefit former MEP. The extension of copyright protection for musicians and producers, from 50 years to 70 years, which was approved by ministers...

Copyright protection for performers and producers to go up from 50 to 70 years. The European Union has adopted new rules to extend copyright protection for music...

Green paper will look at online distribution of audio-visual material. Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for the internal market, is next week (13 July) expected to...

Progress on an EU-wide patent has been difficult for many a presidency of the Council of Ministers, but things should be different for Poland, Poland has made plain that it...

Strategy to highlight initiatives until 2014. The European Commission is set to announce a wide-ranging strategy on intellectual property rights (IPR) and to signal its...

European Commission prepares to announce a series of reforms on on intellectual property rights. The fragmentation of the EU's intellectual-property regime must be...

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Reform of the copyright regime is fundamental to unlocking Europe's potential. Further to your article “A lack of digital harmony” (Special report on the digital...

Industry and the EU believe consumers would benefit from a digital single market. Nothing illustrates more clearly the power of the consumer to shape the digital economy...

Deal will boost copyright protection The European Commission said today that international negotiators had reached a provisional deal on a new global Anti-Counterfeiting...

ECJ says firms that sell writeable discs should not be liable for copyright payments. The EU's Court of Justice has ruled that companies that sell digital recording material...

Elisabeth Niggemann on the challenges of putting Europe's libraries and museums online. Elisabeth Niggemann is the public face of Europeana, the European digital library,...

Business groups divided over ACTA talks. Business groups are split over the merits of an anti-counterfeiting treaty that is being negotiated internationally.

No mandatory internet cut-offs, say negotiators of anti-counterfeiting agreement. The draft text of a controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is to be made...

The record industry calls file-sharing theft, but many others disagree. Copyright is the most contentious form of intellectual property protection at the moment, ...

Report says industry loses €10bn each year and internet piracy ‘equal' to counterfeiting of goods. Teenagers who illegally download music, films and other digital...

We need a new social contract about the way we deal with authors and culture in the digital era. I write in response to your article on Google's digitalisation of...

Call to support EU's Europeana project. European publishers will next week present their arguments against a draft legal settlement agreed in the United States to permit...