Uneducating Copyright – Member States Can Choose Between ‘Full Legal Certainty’ and Patchworked Licensing Schemes for Digital and Cross-Border Teaching Activities

Author: Bernd Justin Jütte

Abstract: The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market supplements the existing exception for teaching of the Information Society Directive. The new exception focuses on digital and cross-border teaching, but fails to provide a legal framework that ensures full legal certainty and addresses the concerns of those engaged in teaching.

Citation: Jütte, Bernd Justin, Uneducating Copyright – Member States Can Choose Between ‘Full Legal Certainty’ and Patchworked Licensing Schemes for Digital and Cross-Border Teaching Activities (August 5, 2019). Forthcoming, European Intellectual Property Review, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3432311