Best Practice Guide: Implementing the EU Copyright Directive in the Digital Age

By Berkman Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser and Berkman affiliate Silke Ernst (both at the St. Gallen Research Center for Information Law).

The guide, which could also inform future law reform in existing member states and is related to stock-taking studies such as the Gowers Report and the forthcoming official review of the EU Copyright Framework, is sponsored by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and builds upon prior work by the Berkman Center's Digital Media Project. The study, focusing on digital copyright, includes specific recommendations in controversial areas such as DRM anti-circumvention frameworks, private copying exceptions, teaching exceptions, exceptions for disabled people, exceptions for archives and libraries, as well as recommendations on issues such as reporting on current events, the quotation right, and provisions on caricature and parody, among others.

"Best Practice Guide: Implementing the EU Copyright Directive in the Digital Age" is available as a PDF at the Berkman Center Site:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/1112/EUCD_Best_Practice_Guide_December_2006.pdf

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