Research and Studies
There were numerous research works conducted on intellectual property and infringements of intellectual property rights, as well as on detrimental consequences caused by infringements of these rights to various branches of industry and entire economy, and the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights at the EUIPO published, independently or in cooperation with other authorities, a number of studies dealing with these issues.
The study titled “IPR-intensive industries and economic performance in the European Union” from October 2022 stands out as particularly noteworthy. The study shows that intellectual property rights intensive industries account for 47 % of economic output, 39.4 % of employment in the European Union in total and they account for most of the EU’s trade with the rest of the world thus generating a trade surplus. These industries employ over 61 million citizens of the European Union. IPR-intensive industries have salaries 41 % higher than in other industries.
The next particularly noteworthy study from 2023 is titled “European Citizens and Intellectual Property – Perception, Awareness and Behaviour” dealing with perception of intellectual property by citizens of the European Union and their attitudes and habits towards copyright-protected content and other subject matter of protection.
EUIPO published also the Report on online copyright infringement in the European Union for the period from 2017 until 2023, in relation to films, music, publications, software and TV, processing IPTV piracy data for the first time (IPTV- Internet Protocol Television), which is exerting an increasingly negative impact on the market, and models in which such piracy occurs.
Reports and studies prepared by the EUIPO often contain research results for all Member Countries of the European Union, for Croatia as well, and abstracts of the main conclusions in Croatian, and they are available at the following link.