Copyright and an Integrated European Market: Conflicts with Free Movement of Goods, Competition Law, and National Discrimination

Publication information:

Ruping K. Copyright and an Integrated European Market: Conflicts with Free Movement of Goods, Competition Law, and National Discrimination. Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. 1997;11:1.

Abstract

A scholarly article on the emerging European copyright regime and the conflict between copyright protection and European competition regulations. The article introduces Treaty of Rome provisions, {EU} regulations, national legislation and court decisions that clarify, and sometimes confuse, the interface between copyright and competition.