ABSTRACT
Sweeping changes are coming to copyright law in the European Union. Following four years of negotiations, the European Parliament in April 2019 approved the final text of the Digital Single Market Directive (DSMD). EU member states now have two years to transpose its provisions into domestic law. The new directive, which is the most substantial change to EU copyright law in a generation, contains provisions for enhancing cross-border access to content available through digital subscription services, enabling new uses of copyrighted works for education and research, and, most controversially, ‘clarifying’ the role of online services in the distribution of copyrighted works. The provisions associated with the last of these goals – Article 15 (the ‘link tax’) and Article 17 (‘upload filters’) – take aim directly at two services operated by Google: Google News and YouTube …
Bridy, Annemarie, EU Copyright Reform: Grappling With the Google Effect (June 30, 2019). Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, forthcoming.
First posted 2019-07-03 05:59:49
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