The European Commission has opened a public consultation aiming at collecting stakeholders' views on the current copyright regulations. The goal of this consultation is to hear the demands of every interested party in view of legislative reform of this controversial matter. The Commission acknowledges in the document created for the consultation (accesible through the link below) that the same its largely owed to the challenges created by the Internet over the last two decades and in the dramatic change in the way content is created, distributed and consumed. The deadline to participate is February 5.