11.10.2017 / News Authors demand the removal of detrimental article 12 from... The 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 secondar...
11.10.2017 / News The European Authors’ Petition to Remove Article 12... European authors have made a petition to remove article 12 from the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The petition has been signed by authors' associations from nine different countries: Czech Republic, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Malta, Norway and Sweden. The article 12, which concerns the publis...
10.10.2017 / News Article 12 in the proposal for the DSM Directive threaten... The European Commission’s legislative proposals for the modernization of copyright has some very worrisome proposals from the point of view of literary authors and translators. The Finnish Literary Copyright Society Sanasto has defended the Finnish authors’ rights since last fall. Article 12 in the proposal for the Digital Single Market directi...