Copyright policy EU

The purpose of the Green Paper is to foster a debate on how knowledge for research, science
and education can best be disseminated in the online environment.

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The Green Paper aims to set out a number of issues connected with the role of copyright in the “knowledge economy”

and intends to launch a consultation on these issues.
The Green Paper is essentially in two parts. The first part deals with general issues regarding
exceptions to exclusive rights introduced in the main piece of European copyright legislation -
Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights
in the information society (“the Directive”)
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. The other piece of copyright legislation that is
relevant for the knowledge economy, Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases
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has been analysed in a separate report
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. Nevertheless, some aspects of this directive, such as
exceptions and limitations, will be addressed in this report as well.

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