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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11696
SECTORAL POLICIES / digital

European Parliament's report on geo-blocking covers copyright-protected works

In a major turnaround in the situation on the copyright dossier, the European Parliament's draft report published on 22 December proposes to include certain copyright-protected works in the scope of application of the draft regulation on unjustified geo-blocking.

This provision was initially put forward by Vice-President of the European Commission Andrus Ansip, who has always been highly in favour of the free movement of European works. However, it was not retained in the final proposal,...