The discourse around the European Union (EU) harmonization project began in the late 1980s. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary since the adoption of the frst copyright directive (the frst Software Directive)1 and the twentieth anniversary since the adoption of the seminal InfoSoc Directive.2 What better way to celebrate, then, than through a Handbook of EU Copyright Law that proposes diferent perspectives and refections on an overall process, which has progressively led to both an increasingly rich, heterogeneous, and complex EU copyright legislative framework (with occasional suggestions of full harmonization) and a plethora (more than one hundred) of equally rich, heterogeneous, and complex decisions issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)?