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• Neighbouring Rights of Press Publishers: Issues Relating to Transposition

  Gábor Polyák

  Klára Szalay

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  250

  Press publishers spend billions on producing quality journalism each year. While the costs of producing well supported, quality journalism manifest in producing the original content, i.e. the very first copy, further costs – due to digitization – are negligible. Parallel to this, prosperous business models thrive on re-using articles in press publications, as well as optimizing them for search and social media platforms attractive enough to generate huge amounts of advertising revenue. But not for the those who actually make the content. The European Union seeks to persuade large digital companies to take part in the financing of European content, mainly through competition law or by taking steps to improve the competitive position of European companies. The rules relating to press publishers of the EU Copyright Directive of 2019 intend to serve this purpose and will be analysed in this paper.

• To support or not to support? A critical look at film support schemes: the American and the European Model

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  Klára Szalay

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  138

  The current article aims at mapping the origins of film aid schemes, comparing the different motives that lay behind the American and European model eventually leading to a globally strengthening subsidy race. Rules guiding national subsidies for the film industry in the European Union have their limits in the State Aid rules of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as well as the Communication of the Commission on certain legal aspects relating to cinematographic and other audiovisual works.