July 1, 2026
Two Megaphones and an Empty Room: The Need to Write the Copyright Reform for the Empty Seats
The EU copyright review is being argued by two blocs of private interests. The party that will live with the result, the public, was never really in the room. That was a choice by those who drafted the consultation. That is not a good thing. Two private interests are shouting at each other across the European Commission's copyright review, and the room they are shouting in is empty. On one side stand rightholders. On the...
