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Abstract
EU copyright law has attempted to resolve the antithesis between the ideal of the single market and the concept of copyright territoriality through a modest approach, which is based on the axiom of safeguarding copyright territoriality and of the accompanying geoblocking practices. The aim of this article is to critically analyse the EU's steps towards the circumvention of the principle of territoriality and of geoblocking and to demonstrate that, as the efforts to create a digital single market are intensified, a strict EU geoblocking policy in relation to services offering access to copyright-protected works cannot be retained. The article is divided into three parts. Part one is dedicated to the consequences of the principle of territoriality on European copyright law (II). Part two is dedicated to the steps, both jurisprudential and legislative, which have been taken to move away from the principle of copyright territoriality at the European level (III). Part three is dedicated to the recently adopted Geoblocking Regulation 2018/302, while possible ways to move forward are also analysed (IV).

List of Abbreviations --Introduction --The Legal Foundations of European Copyright Law --The European Legislator's Strategy in the Field of Copyright Harmonization --The Plurality of Legal Systems in Copyright Law: An Obstacle to a European Codification? --CJEU Policy and Practice in the Field of European Copyright Law --The Foundations of the Concept of Work in European Copyright Law --The Acquis Communautaire in the Area of Copyright and Related Rights: Economic Rights --Defining the Scope of Protection of Copyright in the EU: The Need to Reconsider the Acquis regarding Limitations and Exceptions --Duration of Copyright and Related Rights --Enforcement of IPRs --Authorship and Ownership: Authors, Entrepreneurs and Rights --Moral Rights --Copyright Contracts --An Essential Brick in the Building of European Copyright: Regulation of Copyright Transactions --The Legal Struggle in the EU against Online Piracy --Interoperability and European Copyright Law Codification --The Perspective of the Introduction of a European Fair Use Clause --The Wittem Group's European Copyright Code --Reflections on a European Copyright Codification --European Copyright Codification.