Dear Friends and Colleagues
Please find a copy of an email message I sent to CEPIS Colleagues recently:
I hope this is equally of interest to you.
Best Wishes,
Peter Randle
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:39:54 +0100
>To: CEPIS LSI, Peter Randle (CS)
>From: Peter Randle <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: EU IP Directive
>
>20th April 2001
>
>Dear CEPIS LSIers
>
>I enclose an extract from an EU IP Newsletter concerning the EU Council of
Minister's 9th April 2001 decision:
>
>_____________
>Extract from EU Newletter dated 19th April 2001
>
>EU Council adopts landmark Directive on copyright in the
>information society
>On 9 April 2001, the European Union’s Council of Ministers adopted by
>consensus a Directive establishing copyright protection for books, films
>and music distributed via the Internet. The copyright issues concerned
>have been the subject of intense debate over the past three years, and it
>was agreed at the Lisbon European Council (23-24 March 2000) that EU-wide
>rules settling these issues needed to be drawn up as part of the
>transition to a competitive, dynamic and knowledge-based economy.
>Speaking of the successful adoption of this Directive, Internal Market
>Commissioner Frits Bolkestein said, “This is a very significant
>achievement. Not only is this Directive the most important measure ever to
>be adopted by Europe in the copyright field, but it brings European
>copyright rules into the digital age. Europe’s creators, artists and
>copyright industries can now look forward with renewed confidence to the
>challenges posed by electronic commerce. At the same time, the Directive
>secures the legitimate interests of users, consumers and society at
>large.”
>Member States will have 18 months, from the date of its publication in the
>Official Journal of the European Communities, to implement the new
>Directive in their national laws
>____________________________end of extract_________
>
>
>If you wish to discuss these matters further please contact me directly.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>
>Peter Randle
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Informatics Societies]
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