The Influence of EU Copyright Harmonization Directives on the Construction of Postsocialist Copyright Law in Central and Eastern Europe
The Influence of EU Copyright Harmonization Directives on the Construction of Postsocialist Copyright Law in Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): Adolf Dietz
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: copyright and patent right;intellectual property;EU;Post-communism;
Summary/Abstract: In the years following 1989, the former socialist countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (hereinafter called “the Eastern European countries”) underwent a remarkably rapid transition to democracy and market economy. As a consequence, they not only had to undertake the necessary political reforms, but they also had to introduce important reforms in many individual fields of law, in particular, the field of intellectual property law, including, of course, copyright law. Thus, a whole wave of new copyright laws came into being in these countries during the legislative prolificacy of the 1990s.

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