Boosting creativity and innovation: Commission sets out a blueprint for Intellectual Property Rights
24/05/2011
As part of the Single Market Act, the Commission unveiled today a wide-ranging strategy to modernise intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Single Market. Among the first deliverables of this strategy are today's proposals for an easier licensing system for so-called "orphan works", a new regulation to reinforce customs actions in fighting trade of IPR infringing goods, and a new proposal to reinforce the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy.
- Press conference (live streaming)
- Speech by Commissioner Barnier
IPR Strategy:
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Citizens' summary
- Press release
- Frequently asked questions
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Booklet
- Communication from the Commission: "A Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights"
(provisional version)
Orphan works:
- Frequently asked questions
- Commission proposal (provisional version)
Regulation to reinforce customs action:
Regulation on entrusting the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy on the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM):
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Commission proposal
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