This year, the European Union (EU) is rumbling toward a revised copyright regime to help enable a unified digital economy. Well, definitely maybe. The European Parliament, which shuttles, at considerable expense, between Brussels and Strasbourg, France, is drawing up a draft report in response to a proposal for a new copyright directive put forward by the European Commission (EC) in 2016. A vote will be held on the draft report in June, and the matter will then return to the EC for further consideration and action in the form of a revised directive.
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