National ambassadors to the EU (COREPER) gave a negotiating mandate on Friday 25 May to the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU for the ‘copyright’ directive.
The new text notes that states are free to retain a criterion of scale and/or originality for protecting press publications and does not include the idea of a lighter responsibility regime for micro- and small companies for the value gap.
The draft directive unveiled in September 2016 introduces new exceptions to...