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Le Droit Botté!

Fairy tales have been woven into the fabric of our culture for thousands of years. Initially transmitted orally by storytellers and enriched through interactions with their audiences, they were later definitely fixed under more literary forms. This fixation on paper – by the Grimm Brothers and their counterparts – rigidified the texts but in return […] Read more

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The quest for pan-European copyright licensing solutions: A series of unfortunate events

Since its 1995 Green Paper, the European Commission has been anxious to foster Europe-wide on-line licensing systems for the trans-border management of copyright and related rights. This process, however, was by no means uneventful. Indeed, through the monitoring of various undertakings falling under the scope of art. 81 TCE, tumultuous relationships with the European Parliament […] Read more