Pledoarie pentru o lege unitară a drepturilor de autor a Uniunii Europene
A plea for a unitary copyright law of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: It should be noted that many international treaties encourage reasonably consistent protection of copyright from one country to another. They set minimum standards of protection that each signatory country then implements within the limits of its own copyright law. The European Union (EU) has been developing copyright policies since the 1980s, although there are no powers in the treaties. The formulation of EU intellectual property policies has been the subject of heated political debates between a diverse range of stakeholders, at the heart of which are some fundamentally different conceptions of the nature of intellectual property. In recent years, a growing number of leading European authors and judges have expressed concern about the seemingly unstoppable rise in copyright, related rights, sui generis rights, trademarks and other proprietary rights, intellectual or industrial. The Internet has also brought about a profound transformation in the production of norms and standards. We know clearly that creativity and imagination are in power.

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