It's an effort to harmonize international law with US law. It's essentially the DMCA in treaty form, and important provisions of the DMCA find no close analogue

It's an effort to harmonize international law with US law. It's essentially the DMCA in treaty form, and important provisions of the DMCA find no close analogue in most nations' laws -- or indeed almost any nation's laws until very recently. Certainly they are not universal to Europe.