[TechDirt] European Parliament Committee Calls For Creation Without Copyright To Become EU Policy

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The European Union’s governmental machine is a complicated beast, with its intertwining of supra-national, national and party-political levels (if you’re interested in understanding how it works, the digital rights organization EDRI has put together a useful introduction.) That makes it quite hard to tell what is going on behind the scenes with this new Opinion of the International Trade Committee on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy) […]

Yes, you read that correctly: an official document from the important trade committee of the European Parliament is calling for the option to create without copyright being attached. […]

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