04/07/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 4 July, the European Audiovisual Observatory published a report on copyright exceptions and limitations that should help provide a tool that will assist co-legislators in their work on the draft copyright directive. The document is around 100 pages long and examines the legal situation at national, international and European levels, as well as the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice. It illustrates that fragmentation exists at European level insofar as the exceptions that exist in the 'InfoSoc' (2001/29/EC) directive are optional (with the exception of transitional copies). It also illustrates the three other compulsory exceptions contained in the draft directive on copyright. The document can be consulted at: http://urlz.fr/5wRT . (SPj)