Overview
- Comprehensive: Compares the ideas, interests and arguments behind four EU policy initiatives
- Innovative: Explores the politics of the European Union in a key policy area: Digital Agenda
- Relevant: Examines policy developments in online copyright enforcement in light of the wider debate on Internet Governance
- Ethically Motivated: Makes the case for safeguarding limited liability rules for Internet intermediaries
Part of the book series: Information Technology and Global Governance (ITGG)
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This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field. It is a timely contribution to the next steps of policy-making on copyright enforcement and Internet governance. The author brings to light tensions in how we encourage knowledge and cultural creation, and importantly how we regulate the Internet. In this study, online copyright enforcement is situated within the wider debate on Internet governance. Intermediary liability is a focal point. It provides an explanation of recent online copyright enforcement policy initiatives is based on an in-depth investigation of the ideas, interests, institutions and discourses involved in three EU level and two member state level initiatives. Seventy-two expert interviews complement the policy analysis conducted.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Trisha Meyer is Assistant Professor at Vesalius College, Belgium, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on intellectual property rights and Internet governance in the European Union.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Online Copyright Enforcement in the EU
Book Subtitle: Access and Control
Authors: Trisha Meyer
Series Title: Information Technology and Global Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50974-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50973-0Published: 01 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84535-7Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50974-7Published: 25 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3297
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 346
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Globalization, International Political Economy, Political Communication, Public Policy, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property