Green Paper on Copyright and the Challenge of Technology: Copyright Issues Requiring Immediate Action

Citation
Green Paper on Copyright and the Challenge of Technology - Copyright Issues Requiring Immediate Action, COM (88) 172 final (June 7, 1988) (full-text).

Overview
The "Green Paper" was intended to constitute the basis of a broad consultation of interested circles. For this purpose, the paper contains an analysis, legal and economic, of the various priority issues in respect of which new technologies have raised questions.

In each chapter a number of legislative or technical solutions were suggested so that future political decisions could establish the delicate balance which needed to be struck between the conflicting objectives, thereby promoting at the Community Level the protection, the increased status and the stimulation of intellectual and artistic creativity.