Vers van het IVIR:
The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy, P.B. Hugenholtz, M.M.M. van Eechoud, S.J. van Gompel et al., report to the European Commission, DG Internal Market, November 2006, 308 p.
Study carried for the European Commission (DG Internal Market). Heel kort: Alles over EU auteursrecht en naburige rechten. “Examination of the existing 'acquis communautaire' in the field of copyright and related (neighbouring) rights, with special focus on inconsistencies and unclarities (…) an overall assessment of the benefits and drawbacks of the fifteen years of harmonisation of copyright and related rights in the EU and dwells on regulatory alternatives.”
“On balance, the harmonisation process has produced mixed results at great expense, and its beneficial effects on the Internal Market remain largely unproven and are limited at best. This conclusion calls for caution and restraint when considering future initiatives of harmonisation by directive, even it were only a modest ‘recasting’ exercise. In the light of the renewed interest in the EC’s legislative competence and in view of the growing importance of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, the authors of this study advise the EC legislature not to undertake any new initiatives at harmonisation, except where a clear need for amendment of the existing acquis can be demonstrated..”
