Legislative process

The European Copyright Society posted an opinion on selected aspects of the proposed Data Act. The aim of the Data Act’s sui generis clause (art. 35) to reduce the availability of IP rights over some…

  A Swedish harbour, internationally renowned for whiskey on the rocks; Jonas Helmersson/Swedish Armed Forces In this second post on the Swedish proposal for implementation of Article 17, I look at…

  A Swedish harbour, internationally renowned for whiskey on the rocks; Jonas Helmersson/Swedish Armed Forces As promised in an earlier contribution, I will provide a more reasoned exploration of the…

  Tape Robot at the Institute for Sound and Vision, Paul Keller, CC BY 4.0 Last week the European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. The proposal is the second major element of the…

 At the time that Directive 2019/790/EU (DSM Directive) was being developed, much media attention was focussed, over a period of many months, on the liability of online content sharing service…

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability…

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2022 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Despite…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! We started this rubric in the beginning of 2021. In this series, we update readers…

 Article 17 has been a (the) leading buzzword of the copyright reforms of the European Union in recent years (at least half a decade already). The transposition deadline has now passed. As of June 6,…