Brussels, 07/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 7 July, the Advocate General, Melchior Wathelet, proposed to the European Court of Justice that it consider that the directive on copyright (2001/29) is opposed to the French regime on the so-called “unavailable” books, namely those published before 2001 and which are no longer distributed or published in a printed or digital form.
Two French authors, Marc Soulier and Sarah Doke, requested the cancellation of the French regulation,...