Topical issues of EU copyright law: transformation of law in the information society

Title of the thesis: Current issues of the copyright of the EU: transformation of the copyright in the information society The aim of this master's thesis is to analyse the current issues of the copyright of the EU and identify possible future trends, which should find their way to the upcoming third wave of harmonisation by European Commission. Therefore the master's thesis is based on the analysis of the issues identified for the revision of European copyright by European Commission itself in the recent public consultation. The issues were analysed in three steps to attend the aim. Firstly, the scope of identified issues for revision of the law is analysed. It was assumed, that the issues presented by Commission are requesting legislative action because of the lack of applicable solutions or due to high rate of legal uncertainty. Secondly, the current state of European copyright in issues was tested for striking the fair balance of stakeholder in the light of the utilitarian theory of copyright. Based on the previous two steps, possible future trends recommendable for the revision of the European Copyright were identified. Therefore, the main aim of the master's thesis was achieved successfully. Mostly due to still existing juridical solutions, the original premise about the scope of issues being..