Copyright Infringement and Licensing
Current Regime
Currently, liability for the hosting and transmission of
copyright protected content online in the EU is determined by the
regime transposed into national laws pursuant to the Directive on
certain legal aspects of information society services, in
particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (2000/31/EC)
(E-Commerce Directive). In addition, the Directive
on the harmonisation of copyright in the information society
(2001/29/EC) (InfoSoc Directive) specified a
number of exceptions and limitations to liability for infringement
of the reproduction right held by authors and rightsholders, which
Member States could implement in national laws, including any use
for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche.
