The Competence of the European Union in Copyright Lawmaking

This book inquires into the competence ofthe EU to legislate in the field of copyright, and uses content analysistechniques to demonstrate the existence of a normative gap in copyrightlawmaking. To address that gap, it proposes the creation of benchmarks oflegislative activity, reasoning that EU secondary legislation, such as directivesand regulations, should be based on higher sources of law. It investigates twosuch possible sources: the activity of the EU Court of Justice in thepre-legislative