In the European Union intellectual property rights are a highly contentious issue. Since the late 1980s almost all Commission proposals to regulate various aspects of intellectual property rights have been met with resistance from NGOs and other interests groups. Two out of four proposed directives to regulate the patent system have been rejected by the European Parliament (in average only three percent of the proposed directives are rejected) and most recently the public consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules received a record number of more than 11,000 submissions – a number that no other EU consultation in any policy field has reached so far. One issue that continuously comes up in these conflicts is the question whether or not and/or where the regulation of intellectual property claims should differentiate between individual and commercial potentially infringing activities. Continue Reading →
1. August 2014
by shaunss
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