Christophe Geiger & Bernd Justin Jütte (eds.)
Enabling Access, Fostering Innovation: Towards a Digital Knowledge Agenda in Europe
Access to knowledge and information is essential to foster innovation. In the EU, existing copyright rules pose significant barriers to research and education. Instead of promoting access to knowledge resources, copyright creates legal uncertainty for researchers and educators and enables information intermediaries to exercise strict control over the use of protected works. This edited volume proposes ways out of the copyright conundrum by rethinking copyright as an access right.
As with all our Verfassungsbooks, the digital edition is Open Access. A print copy can be ordered at your local bookstore or from major online retailers, with worldwide delivery available.
“This book marks a fundamental contribution to the topical debate on a Digital Knowledge Agenda. More than ever, a fifth Freedom for research, innovation, knowledge, and education is key for the sustainability and success of the European project. The individual contributions illustrate with rare clarity and intellectual depth how to make EU copyright law fit for purpose.”
Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
“The twelve pithy chapters in this timely and important collection make the case that access to knowledge should be top of the EU legislative agenda, and offer fresh, but practical ideas on how EU copyright law’s rules on e-lending, research, libraries, education, lawful access, (etc) might be reformed to achieve this goal.”
Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge
Christophe Geiger & Bernd Justin Jütte (eds.)
Enabling Access, Fostering Innovation: Towards a Digital Knowledge Agenda in Europe
Access to knowledge and information is essential to foster innovation. In the EU, existing copyright rules pose significant barriers to research and education. Instead of promoting access to knowledge resources, copyright creates legal uncertainty for researchers and educators and enables information intermediaries to exercise strict control over the use of protected works. This edited volume proposes ways out of the copyright conundrum by rethinking copyright as an access right.
As with all our Verfassungsbooks, the digital edition is Open Access. A print copy can be ordered at your local bookstore or from major online retailers, with worldwide delivery available.
“This book marks a fundamental contribution to the topical debate on a Digital Knowledge Agenda. More than ever, a fifth Freedom for research, innovation, knowledge, and education is key for the sustainability and success of the European project. The individual contributions illustrate with rare clarity and intellectual depth how to make EU copyright law fit for purpose.”
Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
“The twelve pithy chapters in this timely and important collection make the case that access to knowledge should be top of the EU legislative agenda, and offer fresh, but practical ideas on how EU copyright law’s rules on e-lending, research, libraries, education, lawful access, (etc) might be reformed to achieve this goal.”
Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge