The new rules, which Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said are designed to strike a balance between promoting creation and innovation and promoting the widest possible access to goods and services protected by IPR, contains proposals for an easier licensing system for orphan works.

The IPR Strategy sets out a series of short- and long-term key policy actions. They include:

- Multi-territorial copyright licensing. In view of the digital Single Market streamlining copyright licensing and revenue distribution is one of ...