Welcome
At a time when the copyright public policy debate tends to focus exclusively on enforcement, we believe that it is time for a discussion in the European institutions on how to ensure that copyright fully supports innovation, creativity, competition, and the public interest. Now is the time for a constructive policy agenda to ensure copyright meets the needs of the 21st century.
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C4C’s Comments on the UK-NZ Free Trade Agreement
In March 2022, C4C contributed to the International treaty examination of the UK-NZ Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Our key message: Extending copyright protection with 20 years, going from life plus 50 years to life plus 70 years, blatantly neglects evidence demonstrating Read More...
Issues in the Real World
We have listed illustrations of uses of copyrighted works in the real world that individual signatories have provided to illustrate some of the issues they believe should be discussed at EU level to achieve the objectives of the declaration, namely: