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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8010

20 July 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) copyright
Council finally adopts Directive of release rights for authors over resale of their works

Brussels, 19/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday the Council adopted through written procedure the Directive that will guarantee artists a "release right" over the resale of with works. Defined in the framework of the conciliation procedure, this Directive has been adopted by the European Parliament last June (see EUROPE of 5 July, p.8). It foresees that artists will be able to demand their intellectual property rights over all the works whose price exceeds EUR 3,000 during professional...

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