The EU copyright regime "is fragmented, inflexible, and often irrelevant", was the harsh truth voiced by the European Commission's vice-president for the digital agenda Neelie Kroes at a July conference in Amsterdam. Stating that technology is changing how people use and re-use information and "disrupting a longstanding legal framework", the Dutch politician banged the drum for an open-minded debate to tackle a regime that is "crying" out for modernisation.
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