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Agorateka – The European portal for legal online content

Agorateka is both a Pan-European portal and a network that aims to promote legal content in five categories: TV series and movies, music, e-books, video games and sport events. Currently, 25 European countries participate in the network and around 2500 legal offer sites are linked to the portal.

Agorateka is the pan-European portal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

The EUIPO is one of the largest decentralized agencies of the EU, based in Alicante, Spain. Ranked as one of the most innovative IP offices in the world. The EUIPO manages the registration of the European Union trade mark (EUTM) and the Registered Community design (RCD), both of which provide intellectual property protection in all EU Member States.

Agorateka was created through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, which is part of the EUIPO. The Observatory supports the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights and helps combat the growing threat of IP infringement in Europe.

EUIPO IP Perception Study 2023 has shown that many EU citizens do not know where to find legal sources of digital content. For example, only 45% of EU citizens know where they can legally watch live sport events. In response to these needs, the EUIPO Observatory created Αgorateka, which is an access point to national portals and allows European citizens to easily and quickly find legal sources online.

Finding legal content online can sometimes be difficult. Many websites containing illegal content look very similar to official websites. As a result, it is complicated to distinguish between what is legal and what is not. Agorateka allows to search for national portals that publish links to websites that contain music, movies and television series, e-books, video games and sport events. The content can be available through a subscription, free content, and content that is sponsored by advertisers.

The Greek part of Agorateka is “enjoy legal”, a portal that was created under the initiative of the Hellenic Copyright Organization (HCO). Its objective is to inform the Greek public about online platforms that offer copyright and/or related rights protected content lawfully. In other words, the HCO collects and provides users with online platforms where they can lawfully watch or download movies, series and sports events, listen to or download music, read online or download books and gain access to images and video games.

Find more about Agorateka here.

Find enjoylegal here.