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Journal of European Public Policy, 2023
The 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market represents an intriguing departure f... more The 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market represents an intriguing departure from the anticipated path of liberalisation in public policy. While it includes provisions seemingly aligned with the liberalisation of the Digital Single Market by relaxing digital copyright enforcement, it also introduces mechanisms that bolster digital copyright protection, signalling a shift towards market regulation. This paper explores why and how Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission proposed a directive featuring robust regulatory elements despite initial promises of copyright deregulation within the Digital Single Market. Combining insights from political economy and political sociology, I examine the concept of ‘political work’ as the practice of promoting, defending, and implementing a choice of public action. Within this framework, I identify a managerial dimension of political work involving political practices that influence the institutional structure and management of public action. Utilising a qualitative methodology involving twelve in-depth interviews with Commission officials conducted between 2018 and 2021, alongside document analysis, I demonstrate how Jean-Claude Juncker and his cabinet’s managerial political work, encompassing organisational reforms within the Commission, played a pivotal role in steering the proposed policy towards regulation.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 2, 2022
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Apr 25, 2023
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Aug 1, 2017
The Politicization of the European Union: From Processes to Consequences, 2022
In this chapter, we investigate how MEPs’ activity grants them extended agency within the institu... more In this chapter, we investigate how MEPs’ activity grants them extended agency within the institutional constraints of the ordinary legislative procedure and ultimately drives the politicization of EU decision-making. We compare two cases of highly politicized reforms: the Visa Code regulation and the Copyright directive. We introduce the concept of framing activism: the promotion by an actor of an antagonistic conception of a public problem, as a means of engaging conflict with other actors and “existing” in the collective dramaturgy of policy-making. We identify three types of framing activism strategies: transinstitutionnal strategies (in both cases); a blocking strategy (Visa case); a politicization of expertise strategy (copyright case).
François Foret, Jana Vargovčíková, Value Politics in the European Union From Market to Culture and Back, London: Routledge, 2021
Copyright bares an inner tension between cultural and market values: it historically oscillated b... more Copyright bares an inner tension between cultural and market values: it historically oscillated between empowering creators through the market and protecting them from the market. How does this tension play in the digital age? To tackle this question, this chapter look at the salient parliamentary debates on the 2019 “copyright in the digital single market” directive, framed as a victory of culture against the market. We contrast this perspective by highlighting that, following the digitalisation of the economy, a new set of values entered the actors’ repertoire: open-access values. Thus, three competing sets of values framed MEPs’ interventions: culture, market, and open access. We argue that in the digital age, the conflict between market and culture that structures copyright policies is rebalanced to fit in a classical market regulation dilemma. Culture values, supporting market regulation to fight GAFA’s monopolies, are opposed to open-access values, supporting a free market to encourage digital innovation. Thus, both sets of values, whereas historically and socially developed in opposition to economic incentives, are mobilised to defend different market approaches (more vs. fewer barriers to entry).
Politique européenne, 2017
Cet article analyse comment la redéfinition de la problématique du droit d’auteur par l’UE afin d... more Cet article analyse comment la redéfinition de la problématique du droit d’auteur par l’UE afin de construire un marché unique numérique affecte les stratégies de mobilisation de deux associations de représentants d’écrivains français, habituées à interagir avec le ministère de la Culture français sur ces questions. L’article identifie un double phénomène : d’une part le maintien de manières de faire antérieures, dû à une logique de path dependency et un manque de capital social européen ; et d’autre part une transnationalisation de l’action en résistance à une possible supranationalisation, produit de la réfraction de logiques du champ de l’Eurocratie par le champ littéraire français.
Journal of European Public Policy, 2023
The 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market represents an intriguing departure f... more The 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market represents an intriguing departure from the anticipated path of liberalisation in public policy. While it includes provisions seemingly aligned with the liberalisation of the Digital Single Market by relaxing digital copyright enforcement, it also introduces mechanisms that bolster digital copyright protection, signalling a shift towards market regulation. This paper explores why and how Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission proposed a directive featuring robust regulatory elements despite initial promises of copyright deregulation within the Digital Single Market. Combining insights from political economy and political sociology, I examine the concept of ‘political work’ as the practice of promoting, defending, and implementing a choice of public action. Within this framework, I identify a managerial dimension of political work involving political practices that influence the institutional structure and management of public action. Utilising a qualitative methodology involving twelve in-depth interviews with Commission officials conducted between 2018 and 2021, alongside document analysis, I demonstrate how Jean-Claude Juncker and his cabinet’s managerial political work, encompassing organisational reforms within the Commission, played a pivotal role in steering the proposed policy towards regulation.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 2, 2022
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Apr 25, 2023
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Aug 1, 2017
The Politicization of the European Union: From Processes to Consequences, 2022
In this chapter, we investigate how MEPs’ activity grants them extended agency within the institu... more In this chapter, we investigate how MEPs’ activity grants them extended agency within the institutional constraints of the ordinary legislative procedure and ultimately drives the politicization of EU decision-making. We compare two cases of highly politicized reforms: the Visa Code regulation and the Copyright directive. We introduce the concept of framing activism: the promotion by an actor of an antagonistic conception of a public problem, as a means of engaging conflict with other actors and “existing” in the collective dramaturgy of policy-making. We identify three types of framing activism strategies: transinstitutionnal strategies (in both cases); a blocking strategy (Visa case); a politicization of expertise strategy (copyright case).
François Foret, Jana Vargovčíková, Value Politics in the European Union From Market to Culture and Back, London: Routledge, 2021
Copyright bares an inner tension between cultural and market values: it historically oscillated b... more Copyright bares an inner tension between cultural and market values: it historically oscillated between empowering creators through the market and protecting them from the market. How does this tension play in the digital age? To tackle this question, this chapter look at the salient parliamentary debates on the 2019 “copyright in the digital single market” directive, framed as a victory of culture against the market. We contrast this perspective by highlighting that, following the digitalisation of the economy, a new set of values entered the actors’ repertoire: open-access values. Thus, three competing sets of values framed MEPs’ interventions: culture, market, and open access. We argue that in the digital age, the conflict between market and culture that structures copyright policies is rebalanced to fit in a classical market regulation dilemma. Culture values, supporting market regulation to fight GAFA’s monopolies, are opposed to open-access values, supporting a free market to encourage digital innovation. Thus, both sets of values, whereas historically and socially developed in opposition to economic incentives, are mobilised to defend different market approaches (more vs. fewer barriers to entry).
Politique européenne, 2017
Cet article analyse comment la redéfinition de la problématique du droit d’auteur par l’UE afin d... more Cet article analyse comment la redéfinition de la problématique du droit d’auteur par l’UE afin de construire un marché unique numérique affecte les stratégies de mobilisation de deux associations de représentants d’écrivains français, habituées à interagir avec le ministère de la Culture français sur ces questions. L’article identifie un double phénomène : d’une part le maintien de manières de faire antérieures, dû à une logique de path dependency et un manque de capital social européen ; et d’autre part une transnationalisation de l’action en résistance à une possible supranationalisation, produit de la réfraction de logiques du champ de l’Eurocratie par le champ littéraire français.