This report is based on an analysis of the 30 most frequently pirated creative works in each of the EU Member States, including 316 films, 500 music artists and 309 TV series. The data on consumption of pirated content was purchased from MUSO, a leading commercial provider of such data, while th...
This study follows the first edition of the Intellectual Property and Youth Scoreboard (2016). The specific aim of the research is to understand which drivers and barriers are the strongest when acquiring online digital content or purchasing physical goods that are offered legally and illegally....
This report examines consumption of copyright-infringing content in the 28 EU Member States, for TV programmes, music and film, using a variety of desktop and mobile access methods, including streaming, downloading, torrents and ripping software. The report consists of two parts, a descriptive a...
In 2018, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, commissioned a research study on IPTV crime in Europe. The purpose of the research study was to enhance the level of understanding about the ways i...
This report studies the role of territoriality in film financing, the legal and market challenges territoriality faces as a key model for film financing and the consequences if EU policies were to reduce or mitigate the scope of territorial exclusivity in the audiovisual sector. It provides info...
L'obiettivo del presente studio, commissionato dal Dipartimento tematico "Diritti dei cittadini e affari costituzionali" del Parlamento europeo su richiesta della commissione JURI, è esaminare l'attuale stato di attuazione della direttiva ed effettuare un riesame approfondito delle pratiche in S...
The objective of this study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, is to examine the current status quo of implementation of the Directive, and to carry out an in-depth review of the pract...
This report discusses the findings of a test case conducted between September and December 2017, to assess consumers’ experience with accessing digital film content via legal online sources — more specifically, via transactional video-on-demand (‘pay per title’, henceforward TVOD) services. The ...
This European Implementation Assessment aims to provide briefing for the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) ahead of the publication of the Commission's legislative proposals concerning the modernisation of the EU copyright framework, which are expected towards the end of 2015. The specific objec...
This report is one of the outcomes of the EPIS06 Project – European Perspectives on the Information Society – carried out by the ETEPS (European Techno-Economic Policy Support) network in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre’s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC IPTS) with...