Een Europese Auteurswet
"Copyright subsists in a work1, that is to say, any2 expression3 within the field of literature, art or science4 in so far as it5 constitutes its author’s own6 intellectual creation.7”
Een mooi project van een diverse groep van in totaal 15 Europese auteursrechtwetenschappers: The European Copyright Code, een voorbeeld van hoe een Europese Auteurswet eruit zou kunnen zien.
The Members of the Drafting Committee of the Wittem Group [genoemd naar het kasteel waar de oprichtingsvergadering werd gehouden – IEF] have the pleasure of announcing that our European Copyright Code was published today, 26 April 2010 – World IP Day. The Code is the result of the Wittem Project that was established in 2002 as a collaboration between copyright scholars across the European Union concerned with the future development of European copyright law. The Wittem Group believes that a European Copyright Code drafted by legal scholars might serve as a model or reference tool for future harmonization or unification of copyright at the European level.
Drafting Committee: Prof. Lionel Bently, Prof. Thomas Dreier, Prof. Reto Hilty, Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Prof. Antoon Quaedvlieg, Prof. Dirk Visser, Prof. Alain Strowel.
The Code is available at www.copyrightcode.eu.
