COPYRIGHT REVIEW

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE PUBLISHERS' Association has welcomed a public consultation on improving European Union (EU) copyright legislation, calling it good European Commission "housekeeping". Brussels wants the publishing industry to let it know by October 31, whether any of five copyright directives (1991/250 on computer programmes, 1992/100 rental/lending right, 1993/83 satellite and cable, 1993/98 term of protection, 1996/09 databases) contain contradictory passages, especially with newer legislation such as the information society directive (2001/29). PA copyright ...


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