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Aplin, Tanya --- "UNITED KINGDOM" [2019] ELECD 645; in Lindner, Brigitte; Shapiro, Ted (eds), "Copyright in the Information Society" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 952

Book Title: Copyright in the Information Society

Editor(s): Lindner, Brigitte; Shapiro, Ted

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 30

Section Title: UNITED KINGDOM

Author(s): Aplin, Tanya

Number of pages: 30

Abstract/Description:

This substantially revised chapter examines the impact of Directive 2001/29/EC in light of two major developments since publication of the first edition of this collection. The first is the extensive growth of EU jurisprudence on Directive 2001/29/EC and, particularly, increased judicial harmonization of copyright. The second and more troublesome development is the regrettable decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union. The negotiations for withdrawal are on-going and so it is difficult to predict the consequences for UK copyright law. Even so, the Directive 2001/29/EC and its interpretations by the European Court of Justice are likely to remain influential in future to UK copyright law. This chapter seeks to tease out the complexities which arise out of these two major developments in discussion of the following topics: i) originality; ii) exclusive rights; iii) exceptions; and iv) the UK’s post-Brexit future.