For instance, in Poland (which is in Europe) you have all rights to create copies of software, music, movies, for your personal use after paying for the original copy. You cannot do this under copyright which strictly forbids you from creating copies of the original media. Copy-right, as a right to create copies.
In this meaning, copyright is not the same as authorship rights, which is a basis of intellectual property protection in Europe.
Similarly for software patents, they do not work in EU.
Not only that, the article being from American media, even with the footnote, the commenters, miss the whole point about copyright being exclusively American concept and we don’t have this in EU. We have IP and authorship rights that work differently. See last part for explanation: https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/15/french-judge-rules-gpl-lice...
In this meaning, copyright is not the same as authorship rights, which is a basis of intellectual property protection in Europe.
Similarly for software patents, they do not work in EU.