European Union IP Policy

The European Union has many policy intiatives related to the Internet, ecommerce and online content or copyright. In fact, there are so many, it is frequently difficult to keep up with them. In this section, I report on Internet-related matters within the EU institutions - European Commisission, Council and Parliament - and the activites of the key policy-makers.

Specific policies which are under consideration, such as the IPR enforcement directive and IP or copyright enforcement initiatives, are reported in a dedicated section. Similarly, the section on Internet Threats looks at any other EU policy initiatives which imply Internet blocking for any other purpose.

If you like the articles in this section and you are interested in the EU and copyright enforcement policy, you may like my books A Copyright Masquerade: How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms and The Copyright Enforcement Enigma - Internet Politics and the ‘Telecoms Package’

EU copyright bombshell: social media sites to police content

Monica Horten

Published on 01 September 2016

In what can only be called a policy bombshell, proposed new EU copyright rules will force social media sites to police content. A leaked version of a proposed new copyright directive seeks to impose draconian monitoring obligations any sites that support content uploaded by users. If the leaked draft to be believed, content platforms will have to install content scanning systems to monitor and remove copyrighted material. In addition, they will have to report back to rightsholders.

EU announces radical copyright overhaul for cross-border content

Monica H

Published on 06 May 2015

The European Commission announced today radical plans to overhaul copyright. The proposals focus on users’ability to legally access copyrighted content across borders, and they are understood to have upset the entertainment and music industries. This is not surprising since the changes will cut right through their copyright-supported distribution infrastructure.

The main plank for change will be the territoriality of copyright. Territoriality refers to the way that the entertainment industries are organised around national borders for the granting of rights and the distribution and sale of goods. On the Internet, this system is managed by asking intermediaries to block content that is not

EU plans wide-ranging digital policy shake-up - what’s in it for users?

Monica Horten

Published on 06 May 2015

Widely leaked since before Xmas. The biggest open secret in Brussels. What are we to make of the new EU plans for the Internet, presented today as the Digital Single Market policy? An analysis exposes a few hidden issues.

Today the European Union announced a wide ranging plan to tackle the Internet. Top of its action list is a phenomenon that is becoming known as

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Iptegrity.com is the website of Dr Monica Horten, European expert on Internet policy and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She is an independent expert on the Council of Europe Committee on Cross-border flow of Internet traffic and Internet freedom (MSI-INT). She was shortlisted for The Guardian Open Internet Poll 2012. Iptegrity offers expert insights into Internet policy. Iptegrity has a core readership in the Brussels policy community, and has been cited in the media. Please acknowledge Iptegrity when you cite or link. For more, see IP politics with integrity