Copyright Reform for Growth and Jobs: Modernising the European Copyright Framework

Ian Hargreaves, professor of digital economy, University of Cardiff; author, Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (“the Hargreaves report”) and senior fellow at the Lisbon Council; and Bernt Hugenholtz, professor of intellectual property law; director of the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam and academic adviser to the Lisbon Council, look at the need for modernising Europe’s copyright regime, and propose eight ideas for reform – seven evolutionary, one revolutionary. The paper was launched in Brussels at the High-Level Roundtable on Making the Copyright Regime Fit for the Digital Age.