Hi to all!

This is to let you know that the the Regulatory Law Clinic of the HEC in Paris and the NYU has started working on our Freedom of Panorama policy initiative. As part of the semester, students will work on analysing the FoP situation, will try to come up with new arguments in favour of FoP especially focusing on freedom of expression and movement of goods/services angles and will write a draft provision which we could propose for inclusion in the final legal text.

I am attaching the full brief the students received to this email.

Related to this I'm currently negotiating with Mr. Pavel Svoboda, the chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, to host a FoP workshop this March. The idea would be to have the students present their findings, have a rather scholarly debate around FoP and tackle some the knee-jerk fear that currently goes around when talking about copyright exceptions including this one.

Cheers, Dimi