Digital Single Market

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 Here we have it. The first instance of regulatory divergence. The UK is leaving the European Union, and already the rules of the single market are starting to break. In response to a parliamentary…

  Photo by Osman Rana on Unsplash Part I of this post discussed the current position of host providers and the changes that will be brought about by Article 17. Part II addresses the major problems…

  Photo by Osman Rana on Unsplash On July 6, the EU adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive), following heated discussions of Articles 15 (formerly 11) and 17 …

  © Axel Kirch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Part 1 of this post outlined two of the three main takeaways from the Article 17 stakeholder dialogue so far. This part will cover the third of…

  © Axel Kirch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) As 2020 unfolds, the European Commission's stakeholder dialogue pursuant to Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market…

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2020 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year.  Last…

On 17 May 2019 the new Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market was officially published (DSM Directive). Article 17 (ex-Article 13) is one of its most…

 Part I of this blogpost discussed the first paragraph of Article 17(7) DSM Directive, according to which the cooperation between online content sharing service providers (OCSSPs) and rightholders…

 Article 17 of the adopted DSM Directive requires that so-called online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) either obtain use licenses from rightholders or, failing that, enforce copyright ex…