Ansip: 'vested interests will fight us on copyright reform'

"Vested interests" profiting only a few will attempt to hold up the reform of copyright, Andrus Ansip, vice president for the digital single market (DSM) at the European Commission, has said. Speaking at the European Digital Forum in Brussels yesterday (1st June), Ansip said that copyright rules in Europe are a “mess”, and “we need to act with some urgency” to reform them. He also said that people “were tempted into illegal downloads” because they could not access their content when they went abroad. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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