DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LATEST
April 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE PUBLISHERS Association has welcomed the final agreement - after four years of discussions - of the EU digital copyright directive, but has warned that the debates are not finished, the focus will now shift to its implementation by Member States.Chief Executive Ronnie Williams said: "This legislation represents genuine progress. It does evolve copyright. It does not diminish copyright. It's not bad, if you consider how bad things were three years ago. There are no disasters in it."The European Commission was - unsurprisingly - more bullish. EU ...
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