Bundestag Building, CC-by-SA 3.0 Jürgen Mattern
In Part 1 of this blog post, we introduced the core mechanism of ex-ante protection against the blocking of legal uploads in Germany's implementation…
Bundestag Building, CC-by-SA 3.0 Jürgen Mattern
On 28 May the German Bundesrat approved the law transposing Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD), thus finalizing…
"Outside the European Court of Justice" by katarina_dzurekova is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Having established in part 1 of this blog post that Article 17 will place significant economic burdens on…
"Outside the European Court of Justice" by katarina_dzurekova is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The risk of mandatory upload filters for freedom of expression and information online has been at the core…
CC-BY-SA Martin Kraft
Part 1 of this blog post introduced the claim by rightsholders and some other commentators that Article 17 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM…
CC-BY-SA Martin Kraft
EU Member States are currently grappling with the task of implementing the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) into national law. The European…
The first part of this post provided an introduction to the German implementation proposal for Article 17 DSM Directive (the Copyright Service Provider Act), and a discussion of the proposed rules…
Germany was the main battleground over last year’s adoption of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). After 200,000 people took to the streets against impending…
Yesterday the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) published its rulings on three long-standing copyright disputes involving fundamental rights. All three cases had been the subject of…
