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  Photo by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay Introduction The long-awaited European Commission Guidance on art. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was finally published on 4…

  Image by anncapictures from Pixabay On 4 June 202, the European Commission published its guidance on Article 17 of Directive 790/2019 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive). The…

  © Axel Kirch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) The European Commission has published its long overdue guidance on the application of art. 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single…

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…

  Photo by Vlad Lesnov, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Despite the turbulent times Italian politics have experienced in the past year - which led to a change of government in the midst of the…

  "Hand prepare for flip a coin" by wuestenigel is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Copyright law continues to confront an age-old question: how to best balance copyright interests? This year marks the 20…

 This blog looks at Article 15 of the (Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market (CDSM Directive), the press publishers’ right. Article 15, as regular readers of this blog will recall from…

  Photo by Paul Keller In May 2019 right after the adoption of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, the Polish Government initiated a legal challenge before the Court of Justice of…