INTA Newsletter 68 July 2016

Do you like being paid for your job? Do you enjoy rights to your property that prevent others from misusing it? Journalists and people working in the creative industry do too. And that is what the Copyright Directive, just adopted, is all about: using the same property rules offline and online.

At the European Parliament, being an American is something of an anomaly. Not many people expect a young girl from Indiana to be working for a Polish MEP. Despite the anomaly of my position, the past four weeks working for Mr. Walesa have given me the opportunity to engage in politics at an international scale.