The Directive 2001/29/EC, commonly known as the Copyright Directive, has been implemented in Greece by the Law 3057/2002 and in particular Art. 81, which replaced some of the provisions of Law 2121/1993, the Law of copyright, related rights and cultural matters. Greece was (together with Denmark) the first EU Member State that met the deadline for implementation of December, 22^nd 2002.

The amendments brought about by Art. 81 of Law 3057/2002 are threefold: 1) the meaning of intellectual pro­­perty rights is now explicitly construed – and the extent of their exclusivity newly de­­fined – so as to cover the aspects relating to digital forms of dissemination of protected content, 2) new provisions have been inserted to protect technological measures and rights management infor­ma­tion 3) the pre-existing system of sanctions has been updated to comply with the latest de­fi­ned needs.

Maria Sinanidou (Attorney at Law, LL.M.) from the Sinanidis & Sinanidou Law Firm has created an overview for Greece. Read the complete overview here

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