This book is an updated English language version of a highly regarded commentary published in German by Springer in 2001, covering all of the EU directives on copyright law and related rights, with article-by-article analysis of the provisons, as well as the relevant background of general EC law.
The analysis of each article examines its antecedents in national laws, the negotiating history, the meaning and purpose or the wording, interpretive rulings by the European Court of Justice, and key issues relating to implentation of the regulations and rulings by the Member States, concentrating in particular the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Hungary.