This study, requested by the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament, aims to provide an overview of cross-border enforcement of intellectual property rights in the EU with a particular emphasis on copyright and related rights in the online environment. The study provides a...

Statutory remuneration rights are progressively attracting the attention of policy makers as regulatory tools since they constitute a middle way between exclusivity and free uses. Remuneration rights have the potential to realise the delicate balance between access to and protection of...

A few years ago, Nellie Kroes warned that because of ill-adapted laws to technological development, “every day citizens […] across the EU break the law just to do something commonplace”. According to Kroes, the Single Market “cried out” for copyright reform. Finally, the EU responded...

Besides the politic and the economic perspective, Brexit results in chaos regarding intellectual property rights, especially unitary rights. The future of these rights raises interrogations. Even more, it worries many economic operators. In particular, intellectual property rights holders are...

To lay out the ground upon which intellectual property issues rest in international trade law, it may be interesting to wonder about the reason why such issues have been integrated in international trade law and in particular to wonder about the justification of regulating upon IPRs in...

The judiciary fulfils a central role in relation to intellectual property enforcement. The EU Commission's public consultation of December 2015 contains a specific subsection devoted to specialized courts, asking whether legal action at a court specialized in intellectual property provides an...

As a part of a consultation with stakeholders in order to evaluate the overall functioning of the civil enforcement mechanism for intellectual property rights, the European Commission has opened a survey on “the efficiency of proceedings and accessibility of measures” to gather specific...