This book explains the actual significance of EU copyright case law in the construction of both EU and national copyright laws, as well as the reasons and objectives underlying CJEU action. This book also allows readers to promptly understand the potential implications of Brexit on UK copyright, but also the default implications that withdrawal from the EU would have on any other EU Member State's copyright regime. And finally the book explores the relationship between controversial EU reform proposals (value gap, press publishers' right, fair compensation for private copying, and out-of-commerce works) and the existing copyright framework.