Die Panoramafreiheit im digitalen Zeitalter

With the increasing digitalization of the European single market, the freedom of panorama as a limitation to copyright is becoming increasingly important for our society. While the law initially benefited primarily landscape and urban painters, nowadays it is photographers, film-makers, the entire media industry, but also people who share images of works in public space on the Internet who may increasingly come into conflict with copyright laws if a freedom of panorama is not harmonized throughout Europe and adapted tot he digital age.