This paper provides a timely comparative analysis of recent Canadian and European Union (EU) copyright cases regarding the nature and scope of communication rights, as applied to the issue of copyright liability for hyperlinking. It links these evolving practices with the pertinent international...

The study commissioned by UNESCO seeks to evaluate whether the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) ten years into its implementation, has made a substantial and measurable impact on cultural trade relations between the CARIFORUM States and the European Union (EU) and whether...

Much has happened in the past fifty years, and the broadcasting system and in fact the entire media landscape have changed in many significant ways. Yet, the debate on the role of public service media and the involvement of the state in them still perseveres. It has indeed been reinvigorated due...

The chapter seeks to trace developments in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with regard to the telecommunications and the media services sectors by looking at a few recent and advanced trade deals of the United States and the European Union respectively. It examines in particular the...

This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring the governance of "European values" inside data flows. Protecting fundamental human rights and critical public interests that undergird European societies in a global digital ecosystem poses complex...

Digital trade is one of the very few areas of trade law, where one can observe a willingness shared by the international community to move forward and actively engage in new rule-making. The article contextualizes and explores this development by looking at the relevant e-commerce provisions in...