PRIN 2022 - COPY IT
Italian copyright law after the most recent EU legislative reforms: impact assessments, best practices and reform proposals to build a more efficient and fairer system
The advent of digital technologies and the Digital Single Market have created unprecedented opportunities for access to culture, democratisation of cultural and creative practices and the production and distribution of cultural and creative works. To grasp them effectively, copyright systems must be subject to radical rehauls. This is a challenge that the EU legislator has started tackling, albeit limitedly, with Directive 2019/790 (CDSM Directive), and that will be epocal for at least four concurrent reasons: (a) the inner complexity of copyright, which requires multi-sectoral legal analyses and multi-disciplinary studies to be adequately understood; (b) the fragmented knowledge of decisionmakers on the social, economic and cultural phenomena with which copyright interacts, and
the weak understanding of related cause-effect links; (c) copyright relinquishment by some rightholders, in favour of more flexible private regulatory tools; (d) the awareness gap of some market players on the opportunities offered by copyright law. Copy-IT aims at assisting the Italian legislator and stakeholders in facing such challenges, performing impact assessments of the implementations
of the most recent ET interventions, and analysing the regulatory choices of the Italian legislator compared to the margin of discretions left by EU law. This will support the drafting of best practices and reform proposals directed to foster the democratization of culture and creativity, while incentivizing the development of competitive and diverse cultural and creative industries.
To this end, Copy-IT will perform multi-level mapping of public and private regulatory sources on access and reuse of protected work, incentives to their production and preservation, distribution of the value generated by their exploitation, and impact on the competitivity of creative industries. Parallel to this, it will offer data on the coping strategies developed by stakeholders to overcome the most evident pitfalls of the current copyright system. The legal analysis will be coupled by participatory research and dissemination activities, with an innovative focus on 4 groups of stakeholders (end users, individual authors, creative industries, cultural heritage institutions, intermediaries), in order to contextually study their problems and needs. New intermediaries, specific
creative sectors, individual authors and vulnerable users will be subject to particular interest, in order to remedy to the most evident gaps in the state of the art.
ENTE PROMOTORE: Unione Europea - MUR
NOME PROGETTO: PRIN 2022 Italian copyright law after the most recent EU legislative reforms: impact assessments, best practices and reform proposals to build a more efficient and fairer system – COPY IT; COD. MUR: 2022FZYCPY
PERIODO E DURATA: 28/09/2023 – 27/09/2025
FINANZIAMENTO: Missione 4 “Istruzione e Ricerca” del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza ed in particolare la componente C2 – investimento 1.1, Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) – del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza, dedicata ai Progetti di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale - CUP: J53D23005430001
COORDINATRICE: Prof.ssa Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
REFERENTI SSSA: Prof.ssa Caterina Sganga, Dott.ssa Denise Amram, Dott.ssa Anabel Contardi Magali