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Rights on news, expanding copyright on the internet, Urszula Furgal

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The internet and digital technologies have irreversibly changed the way we find and consume news. Legacy news organisations, publishers of newspapers, have moved to the internet. In the online news environment, however, they are no longer the exclusive suppliers of news. New digital intermediaries have emerged, search engines and news aggregators in particular. They select and display links and fragments of press publishers’ content as a part of their services, without seeking the news organisations’ prior consent. To shield themselves from exploitation by digital intermediaries, press publishers have begun to seek legal protection, and called for the introduction of a new right under the umbrella of copyright and related rights. Following these calls, the press publishers’ right was introduced into the EU copyright framework by the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market in 2019. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the extension of entitlements on news and press online influences the EU copyright framework. In essence, the thesis asks whether a new related right of producers of press publications is coherent with the EU copyright framework. It enquires into the motives behind the introduction of the new right, and whether copyright and related rights are a fitting tool to address the issue of compensation of press publishers for online uses of their content. The thesis examines the relationship between copyright and the press publishers’ right in different regards. It compares the object of protection of the two rights, namely press publication and copyrightable works, on the one hand, and the scope of protection, the exclusive entitlements of copyright holders and press publishers’ right holders, on the other. Finally, it explores whether the press publishers’ right overcomes the uncertainties in the press publishers’ legal standing, or rather creates additional uncertainty by introducing a new right which overlaps with copyright

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301 - 332)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--European University Institute (LAW, 2020)

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Rights on news

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Defence date: 18 January 2020

Urszula Furgal

EUI PhD thesesEUI theses

expanding copyright on the internet