The long road to Marrakesh: 40 years of copyright obstruction to human rights and social justice

One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh Treaty. A post on the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) site from 2017 has a good summary of what the treaty is about, and why it is important:

It sets out exceptions and limits to copyright rules so that […]

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https://walledculture.org/the-long-road-to-marrakesh-40-years-of-copyright-obstruction-to-human-rights-and-social-justice/

How copyright drives Internet fragmentation, and why it is hard to fix

The EU Copyright Directive is arguably the most important recent legislation in the area of intellectual monopolies. It is also a failure, judged purely on its own terms as an initiative to modernise and unify copyright across the European Union. Instead, it includes many backward-looking features that go against the grain of the digital world, which are explored in …

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https://walledculture.org/how-copyright-drives-internet-fragmentation-and-why-it-is-hard-to-fix/