Exceptions and limitations in the Italian Copyright Law: from «hand-made copy» to «virtual» copy

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The article focuses on the implementation of the directive 29/2001 in the Italian copyright system stressing the progressive erosion of user's freedom of private copying of protected works. Reason of this progressive restraint of any user's freedom is ascribed to risk of vanishing author's chance of remuneration, thanks to the digital technologies: solutions drafted to face this risk are (and this is the main question posed by the article) extremely drastic, often forgetting the balance of the ancient copyright systems between exploitation rights and user's freedom.