D2.4 Report on barriers experienced by vulnerable groups

The End-user perspective is an often-neglected aspect of the European Union (EU) copyright regulatory framework and of copyright scholarship. In light of the objectives pursued by reCreating Europe, and its overarching aim to promote a modern, creative, culturally diverse, accessible Europe, Work Package (WP) 2 discusses the role of End-users’ rights, interests, expectations, and behaviours vis-à-vis copyright rules. Within WP2, the aim of Task 2.2 is to assess the extent to which vulnerable groups experience barriers in accessing digital cultural content. It also aims to investigate whether, and to what extent, the EU regulatory framework might exacerbate or counteract those barriers. In that regard, we linked ex-ante the idea of vulnerability to structural inequalities by identifying specific groups of End-users. However, the analysis performed in this report aims to unveil further the role of those inequalities and specific barriers linked to them in accessing digital culture.

Please note: a screen-reader accessible version of this report can be downloaded via this link https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1qek2QtRoAuFc570krWhUJH5YKdCKtNn4