On 12 September 2018 the European Parliament approved the new version of the proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market elaborated by the European Commission in 2016. In order to address problems in protecting content and improve the bargaining position of press publishers against information society service providers, the European Commission decided to intervene on rights, introducing an additional layer of copyright, namely a new neighbouring right that will cover reproduction and the making available to the public of press publications to the extent that digital uses are concerned. The proposed reform has produced a spate of comments and criticism, since it has for the most part been interpreted as unjustified, ineffective and damaging. In particular, the new right appears to be without economic or legal justification, since there is no evidence of a market failure which the legislation would need to solve. The paper aims to scrutinise the world of online news and its business models, as well as the complex framework of the much-debated EU copyright reform and the overall effects of the introduction of the new right.

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版权，在线新闻发布和聚合器：欧盟改革的法律和经济学分析

2018年9月12日，欧洲议会批准了由欧盟委员会于2016年制定的新版《数字单一市场版权指令》提案。为了解决保护内容方面的问题并提高新闻出版商针对信息的议价地位作为社会服务提供者，欧洲委员会决定干预权利，引入了另一层版权，即新的邻接权，该权将涵盖复制以及在涉及数字使用的范围内向新闻出版物提供公众。拟议中的改革引起了广泛的评论和批评，因为它在很大程度上被解释为不合理，无效和破坏性的。特别是，新权利似乎没有经济或法律依据，因为没有证据表明需要立法解决市场失灵。本文旨在审查在线新闻的世界及其商业模式，以及备受争议的欧盟版权改革的复杂框架以及引入新权利的总体影响。