The borderless online user: carving up the market for online and streaming services

Thomas Riis; Jens Hemmingsen Schovsbo

doi:10.4337/9781785361432

The borderless online user: carving up the market for online and streaming services

CIIR - Centre for Information and Innovation Law

Abstract

Traditionally copyright has been exploited in separate geographical markets. This practice restricts the ability of users to access online services, music, movies and sports events on their electronic devices wherever they are in Europe and regardless of borders, viz. so called ‘portability’. This contribution describes the complex legal background to problems in copyright, user and producer contracts and technological protection measures and analyses the EU legal framework. Recently specific EU legislation has been proposed (the Portability Regulation and the Geo-Blocking Regulation) with an aim of amending the current legal regime. This contribution argues, however, that existing EU rules and principles, in particular the rules of competition law, may deal with the challenges of the existing restrictions on the cross-border access to online services to such an extent that those challenges in themselves do not necessitate any change of legislation.

Original language	Danish
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on Copyright Law
Editors	Paul Torremans
Number of pages	21
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, UK
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date	2017
Edition	2
Pages	298-318
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78536-142-5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-78536-143-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785361432
Publication status	Published - 2017

Series	Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series

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The borderless online user: carving up the market for online and streaming services. / Riis, Thomas ; Schovsbo, Jens Hemmingsen.
Research Handbook on Copyright Law. ed. / Paul Torremans. 2. ed. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. p. 298-318 (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series).

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