Creative sectors, EU regulators make copyright work on web

Creative sectors and EU regulators make copyright work on the web: new copyright innovation hailed as success at final conference

9 December 2015

Today in Brussels, 9 December, on the day that the European Commission published its long-awaited Communication: “Towards a modern, more European Copyright Framework”, RDI, the part-EU-funded digital copyright project, held a conference to showcase the significant innovation in managing copyright online it has developed over a two-year period. Thanks to the collaboration and support of project partners from the music, publishing, audiovisual, authors and image sectors, RDI’s work will revolutionize creators’ ability to express their rights online as well as B2B and B2C users’ ability to find content, use and re-use content.

European Commission Senior Innovation Adviser Robert Madelin said: "The success of this project reaffirms the synergy in Europe between private brainwaves and modest tax-funded support. This has been a two-year journey of innovation to improve legitimate access to online content and help towards the creation of a Digital Single Market, one of the aims being to improve and widen people's access to cultural content online – thereby nurturing cultural diversity – while opening new opportunities for creators and the content industry.”

Full release: RDI_Conference_PR.pdf

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