The EU mandatory education exception assumes that education activities are carried out within dedicated educational institutions, whereas growing parts of learning, including life-long learning, are taking place outside of such institutions or in hybrid settings. Europe needs to take these realities into account by broadening the existing mandatory exception to copyright and other exclusive rights to facilitate all non-commercial educational activities, regardless of their institutional setting.
This study by Teresa Nobre intends to demonstrate the impact exerted by narrow educational exceptions in everyday practices by analysing 15 educational scenarios involving the use of protected materials under the copyright laws of 15 European countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and […]
In this publication edited by Teresa Nobre we present four national exceptions and limitations to copyright, which, like the EU exceptions, are embodied in abstract norms that allow for a wide spectrum of uses of all categories of copyrighted works by all sorts of users. These exceptions are considered the best examples of national exceptions […]
