[vidarh]

As far as I know all EU countries are signatories to the Berne convention on copyright, and so all of them have the concept of copyright. It is just that copyright is not the only intellectual property rights that apply, as you pointed out.

Authors rights (or "moral rights") are not a big problem. While you usually can't sign those rights away, they don't generally prevent the author from signing away distribution in perpetuity, so while you can't get "total" public domain in those cases, you can usually sign away most of the rights people are most interested in.