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Article 12 is flawed from a legal and practical point of ...
The CMOs and authors’ organizations from several European countries have signed a petition to remove Article 12 from the proposed European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (COM/2016/0593). Article 12 concerns publishers’ right for compensation, and it would enable publishers to demand a share of the compensation for the...
Short history of the DSM Directive Proposal and its Artic...
The European Commission’s legislative proposal for the modernization of copyright has some suggestions for improving the authors' position but also very worrisome proposals from the point of view of literary authors and translators. After the Commission gave its proposal for the DSM Directive in September 2016, it has been discussed in the Cou...
Juha Itkonen: A pawn in the game
Success in the national league can lead to international games. Unfortunately, this happened to Sanasto and the writers and translators in Finland. Years of lobbying yielded a desired effect when the public lending remunerations in Finland were raised to the same level as in other Nordic countries. But we had barely time to realise what we had a...
