Claims by the music, film and video industries that downloading via peer to peer (P2P) networks is destroying their ability to make profits have become ubiquitous in print and on screen . Whether they are true is the stuff of heated battle in the blogosphere. This short article asks whether the...

The European Commission consulted between December 5, 2013 and March 5, 2014 on a wide-ranging review of EU copyright rules. This response by the CREATe Centre attempts to make two contributions: (1) the process of policy formation matters for the evolution of the EU legal framework, and so we...