Skip to content

Kelsey Farish

  • Home
  • About
    • portfolio
    • Contact
    • T&Cs
    • Privacy Notice
  • LEGAL TOPIC
    • Confidentiality
    • Copyright
    • Data Protection
    • Expression
    • Image Rights
    • Publicity
    • Privacy
    • Reputation
    • Trade Marks
  • BUSINESS SECTOR
    • Advertising
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Brand Management
    • Deepfakes
    • Digital Platforms
    • ecommerce
    • Fashion
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • News Media
    • Photography
    • Social Media
    • Sports
    • Start-ups
  • Student Resources
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Buy my Bar Exam Study Schedule
    • upcoming events
    • case references
  • Home
  • About
    • portfolio
    • Contact
    • T&Cs
    • Privacy Notice
  • LEGAL TOPIC
    • Confidentiality
    • Copyright
    • Data Protection
    • Expression
    • Image Rights
    • Publicity
    • Privacy
    • Reputation
    • Trade Marks
  • BUSINESS SECTOR
    • Advertising
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Brand Management
    • Deepfakes
    • Digital Platforms
    • ecommerce
    • Fashion
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • News Media
    • Photography
    • Social Media
    • Sports
    • Start-ups
  • Student Resources
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Buy my Bar Exam Study Schedule
    • upcoming events
    • case references

MP3s crossing a Europe without borders

October 9, 2015October 21, 2020 Kelsey Farish 2 comments
MP3s crossing a Europe without borders

When I was in Germany several years ago, I attempted to play a music video on YouTube that I had first seen in the United Kingdom. It was blocked on copyright grounds. I wondered, if the European Union guarantees the free movement of goods and services between Member States (which the UK and Germany both are), how could Germany block access to music I could freely access back home in London?

This question inspired my Masters Thesis, which explored European copyright law in the context of digital music services. I even got to interview the head of licencing at Spotify as part of my research!

Abstract: The Single Market of the European Union guarantees the free movement of goods, persons, capital and services. However, intellectual property rights are not standardised across Europe, and access to MP3s and music videos varies from one Member State to the next. European supranational institutions have an incentive to foster the growth of the digitialised creative economy, just as the music industry hopes to expand its consumer base and revenue. Therefore, a more Europeanised approach to collective rights management is seen by many as essential, but to what extent? This dissertation explores why neither the music industry nor the Commission are satisfied by the current copyright regime, and how dynamics between the two influence business operations of digital services.

Key Words: European Union, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Collecting Societies, Music industry, Europeanisation, Regulation of the Single Market, Lobbying, European Competition Law, Resource Dependency Theory, Directive 2001/29/EC regarding the harmonisation of copyright in the Information Society (InfoSoc).

You can read the paper in full here:
Masters Thesis – EU Copyright Law – protected.PDF
(9957 words, 37 pages double spaced inclusive of works cited)

Please note, I have disabled copy/paste privileges for this document.

© Kelsey Farish, written Summer 2012

photo thesweetsetup.com

copyrightdigital mediaecommerceintellectual propertymusic

Related Posts

Photograph licences: 5 things to know before you sign!
Photograph licences: 5 things to know before you sign!
Deepfakes and the Law: an excerpt from my Society of Computers & Law Webinar
Deepfakes and the Law: an excerpt from my Society of Computers & Law Webinar
Is someone stealing your Instagram posts?
Is someone stealing your Instagram posts?
A Lawyer’s Take on Social Media Misdeeds: Part 1
A Lawyer’s Take on Social Media Misdeeds: Part 1

Post navigation

Online Intermediary Liability in EU Copyright Enforcement (2013)

2 comments

  1. Pingback: From Stockholm to Stock Market: Sweden’s Spotify set to list on NYSE
  2. Pingback: CopyrightX at Harvard – an introduction! – Kelsey Farish

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Kelsey Farish

Kelsey Farish

Media + Tech Lawyer

Got lost on my way to drama school, now a media and technology lawyer in London.

I write about deepfakes, publicity, privacy, advertising, the audiovisual sector, and creative industries from a legal perspective.

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

You might also like to read:

Cease and Desist, Dilly Dilly!
Brand Management ➤ January 2, 2018

Cease and Desist, Dilly Dilly!

I’ve written previously about cease and desist letters (also known as letters before action) regarding Taylor Swift and Netflix: as evidenced in these two instances, the standard legal documents can be ridiculous, cheeky, or even...

Read More
Ricciardo’s ritual returns at Monaco Grand Prix
Sports ➤ May 28, 2018

Ricciardo’s ritual returns at Monaco Grand Prix

Australian Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo has an interesting celebratory ritual: he drinks champagne from his sweaty racing shoe. Keen to capitalise on the popularity of the stunt, Formula One has recently trademarked the name...

Read More
Lord Hutchinson, barrister who defended “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” dies aged 102
Expression ➤ November 14, 2017

Lord Hutchinson, barrister who defended “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” dies aged 102

In October 1960, a jury formed at the criminal court in central London was asked to consider what would become one of the most important cases in modern English history. The trial concerned neither murder,...

Read More

Subscribe

Stay up to date by subscribing and receive my posts by email.

  • Law
    • copyright
    • human rights
    • privacy law
    • trade marks
  • Fashion
    • advertising
    • celebrities
    • ecommerce
    • instagram
    • marketing
    • personality rights
  • Media and Entertainment
    • celebrities
    • cinema
    • digital media
    • free speech
    • journalism
    • music
    • sports
    • television
  • Digital Culture
    • artificial intelligence
    • image rights
    • deepfakes
    • privacy
    • reputation
© 2021Designed by Little Theme Shop