Greg Sterling says, “The European Commission (EC) and other European Parliamentary Committees are working to “harmonize” copyright laws across Europe. There’s a fragmented set of laws and enforcement structures that the EC wants to fix pursuant to its ambition to create asingle digital market.

This makes considerable sense as Europe seeks to compete globally and to provide uniform content access to Europeans across the continent. That’s part of the rationale behind copyright reform embodied in a “leaked report” on copyright reform (embedded below) from the EC:

The range of online content available in one’s home country does not reflect the breadth of Europe’s cultural production and legal content offers online of European works are still far from realising their full potential. This is particularly the case for European audiovisual works, which in many instances struggle to be distributed, including online, beyond one Member State”.

With Copyright Reform, Is Europe About To Declare “War On The Hyperlink”?

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