Copyright law of the European Union

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Template:Cleanup-date The European Union has made various European Union directives on copyright law which member states are obliged to implement. The EU Copyright Directive of May 22, 2001 has been controversial for similar reasons to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States. Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom have implemented the Directive to date. France passed two last-minute amendments on December 22, 2005 to the DAVSI Act which implemented it, which legalized peer-to-peer exchange systems. An additional Directive, the Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, is alleged by some to make the situation even worse for consumers: welcomed by the music and film industries, it is contended to threaten online liberties as well as consumer interests.

See also: Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection

External links

• European Commission list of directives, proposals and reports.
• EUCD Status (ael.be)
• http://www.eucd.org/
• http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/eucd/eucd.en.html
• IP-Enforcement Directive (ffii.org)

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