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Uses that serve freedom of expression and information should be fully protected at the EU level.

As reported in earlier posts on this blog and on the Kluwer Copyright Blog, in a 2022 study, I examined the national implementations in the 11 Member States that had at that time transposed Article 15 (the press publishers’ right) and Article 17 (the special copyright liability regime for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs)) of the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD).  […]

This article was first published on Kluwer Copyright Blog on June 7, 2024. Today marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. It is hard to remember how divisive and controversial the Directive was during its creation. The Directive’s most controversial provision – Article […]

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the DSM Directive. To celebrate the occasion, we are releasing a supplement to our series of blog posts on trends in national copyright policy following the DSM implementation. The Post-DSM Copyright Report series analyses the national transpositions of all Member States that have finalised their national […]

It is four and a half months since the CJEU — in its judgment in case C-401/19 — set clear limits for the use of automated filters to comply with the provisions of Article 17 of the CDSM directive. The court ultimately concluded that Article 17 is lawful and rejected Poland’s request for annulment of […]

On September 19th, 2022, we are organising — together with Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte — the Filtered Futures conference on fundamental rights constraints of upload filters after the CJEU ruling on Article 17 of the copyright directive. The CJEU decision on Article 17 of the copyright directive has defined a framework for the use of automated […]

These factsheets present the best examples of copyright exceptions for the protection of the freedom of panorama, parody, education and quotations. They were prepared by Anna Mazgal and Teresa Nobre, and are based on our study Best Case Scenarios for Copyright.