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Economic Potential of Creative and Cultural Content in the Digital Single Market – Challenges for the Future of the Copyright Law in the European Union

Several studies that analysed the European Union’s creative and cultural industries showed that creative and cultural industries have the most prominent growth in comparison to the general economy. They also intensively contribute to the European GDP and employment. The creative and cultural industries also showed that they are extremely resistant to crisis. The economic impact of creative and cultural industries led the decision makers across the European Union to the prevailing viewpoint that the creative and cultural industries deserve special attention in the context of economic development of the European Union and the development of the European Digital Single Market. Since the copyright law tailors and enables the legal framework for the protection of creative and cultural content of all kind, the Copyright reform was implemented on the European level in order to settle the most problematic issues of copyright protection in the Digital Single Market. This text analyses the problematic legal issues of copyright protection, such as the territoriality of copyright, the concept of communication to the public in the digital environment, the problem of “intermediaries” and “safe harbours”, as well as the problem of the “value gap”, and the way in which the Copyright reform, currently in the legislative procedure before the institutions of the European Union, proposes to settle those issues.

creative and cultural content, digital environment, copyright

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