German non-paper regarding Article 13 of the Directive
Teresa Nobre, Communia, writes about the German Council delegation and a proposed “non-paper” with which it tries to mitigate the negative effects of Article 13 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
The propositions are the following:
– exemption for platforms with an annual turnover of up to 20 million euros;
– exceptions of liability of platforms in certain situations (if for instance they made their best efforts to obtain an authorization from the rightsholders);
– introduction a mandatory user-generated content exception to copyright, subject to the payment of a fair remuneration to the rightsholders.
Even though the things are moving in the right direction, the introduction of a new remuneration scheme is problematic. Why would users have to pay for uploading and making available content that they have produced themselves, where it includes, in whole or in part, existing protected works and subject matter for non-commercial purposes and for purposes such as parody, caricature or criticism? This seems like a tax on freedom on creation and freedom on expression. Isn’t that already allowed under the copyright legislation?
ChatGPT poses difficult questions in the field of authorship as well as in the field of ethics in science (and also in other fields where independent work is required).
How does the right to education and science limit copyright law?
In June 2022, Communia launched a competition for the best implementation of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). The “Eurovision DSM contest” aims to track the implementation of the DSM Directive in the 27 EU member states.
Knowledgerights 21 is organizing a webinar on flexible copyright exceptions from a European perspective that will take place on February 13, 2023, from 11:00 to 12:30.