Franco-German compromise deal
Article 3 of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market is back on the negotiating table and it is even worse
Unfortunately, most of the member states of the EU still support the introduction of upload filters on the user-generated content platform, they just do not agree on the scope of the mandatory nature of the filters. France claims that filters sould apply to all platforms, regardless of size. Germany, on the other hand, advocated the position that they should not apply to everyone and that companies with a turnover below €20 million per year should be excluded outright.
In the recently presented Franco-German compromise deal, Article 13 does apply to all for-profit platforms. Upload filters must be installed by everyone except those services which fit all three of the following extremely narrow criteria:
– available to the public for less than 3 years,
– annual turnover below €10 million,
– fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitor.
In addition to these strict conditions the platforms that want to be excluded will have to prove that they have undertaken their best efforts to obtain licenses from the right holders. Such a wide obligation to filter copyright content is totally unacceptable for copyright law as the regime stimulating creativity and the dissemination of knowledge.
On Monday 11 January 2021, Aksioma will hold an online talk event where a blogger, Regine Debatty from We Make Money Not Art will discuss with Jill Magid her film “The Proposal”. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M. will join the talk as a special guest.
Last week, the European Commission adopted a Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Data Governance (Data Governance Act). It is an instrument aimed at enhancing data accessibility and building trust in data-sharing intermediaries through data sharing mechanisms.
On Wednesday 25 November European Commission published an extensive Final Report on Trends and Developments in Artificial Intelligence in the EU.
Center for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM), established under the auspices of University of Bournemouth, will hold several online events in the following weeks, including events relating to the implementation of the new Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive).