On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 11:38 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The EU legal acts in the area of copyright have what is called "EEA
relevance". This means that apart from the (still 28) Member States, they
are also binding (although with more flexibilities) to Norway, Iceland,
Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Thus this reform sets out the copyright
framework for 32 countries in Europe.
On top of it, the EU will include pieces of its IPR legislation in trade
and association treaties with third countries. Some of our "best selling
exports" have been the criminalisation of DRM circumvention (aka: you may
have a legal right to use content but at the same time, you are forbidden
to exercise this right because of DRM) as well as term lenghts for
copyright protection that exceed the Berne Convention.
Mathias