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Copyright in community law: recent decisions of the European court of justice and of the European Commission

"The fact that the European Community is seeking to assimilate the economies of the nine Member States does not mean that the cultural diversity of the Member States should be eliminated at the same time. Indeed, the merit of European culture is the variety of cultures and languages it contains, yet...

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Main Author: Hoffman, Frank
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description "The fact that the European Community is seeking to assimilate the economies of the nine Member States does not mean that the cultural diversity of the Member States should be eliminated at the same time. Indeed, the merit of European culture is the variety of cultures and languages it contains, yet all within a broadly similar tradition. Because each Member State needs, for example, its own publishing industry, just as it needs its own television service, does not mean that there is a failure to integrate the Community." Memorandum on European Community law and copyright in literary works, submitted by the British Publishers Association, September 1980.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/42999 Copyright in community law: recent decisions of the European court of justice and of the European Commission Hoffman, Frank Intellectual Property "The fact that the European Community is seeking to assimilate the economies of the nine Member States does not mean that the cultural diversity of the Member States should be eliminated at the same time. Indeed, the merit of European culture is the variety of cultures and languages it contains, yet all within a broadly similar tradition. Because each Member State needs, for example, its own publishing industry, just as it needs its own television service, does not mean that there is a failure to integrate the Community." Memorandum on European Community law and copyright in literary works, submitted by the British Publishers Association, September 1980. 2026-03-18T08:07:45Z 2026-03-18T08:07:45Z 1988 2024-07-19T13:24:08Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42999 en eng application/pdf Intellectual Property Research Unit Faculty of Law University of Cape Town
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Copyright in community law: recent decisions of the European court of justice and of the European Commission
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title Copyright in community law: recent decisions of the European court of justice and of the European Commission
title_full Copyright in community law: recent decisions of the European court of justice and of the European Commission
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title_short Copyright in community law: recent decisions of the European court of justice and of the European Commission
title_sort copyright in community law recent decisions of the european court of justice and of the european commission
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