'Fair Use' through Fundamental Rights: When Freedom of Artistic Expression allows Creative Appropriations and Opens up Statutory Copyright Limitations

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03 October 2018, USA

This chapter discusses the evolution of the jurisprudential understanding in the European Union of the relationship between copyright and freedom of artistic expression and demonstrates how courts specifically in France but also in several other Member States have been accepting a sort of “fair use” approach through the application of fundamental rights as external limitations to copyright law.

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