...Giuseppe Mazziotti; Felice Simonelli Purpose This paper aims to show how the European Commission is seeking to solve the problems of market fragmentation and inaccessibility of copyright content in the Digital Single Market. The analysis draws on a still unresolved conflict between the enforcement...

... platforms are (amongst other factors) serving to maintain and bolster the position of major music copyright owners. Originality/value In the context of the contemporary “knowledge economy”, the authors propose paying special attention to one specific area of policy innovation – that related...

... industry. Then, the impact of the Internet on the current business model is described, especially as it relates to the distribution stage of the value chain in the record business. Also, the impact of the Internet’s disruption of the distribution stage on the state of existing copyright law, as manifested...