{"id":4129,"date":"2021-04-23T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:24:39","slug":"communias-open-letter-for-protection-of-the-users-fundamental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/communias-open-letter-for-protection-of-the-users-fundamental-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Communia&#8217;s Open Letter for protection of the users\u2019 fundamental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The open letter is a reaction to the CJEU\u2019s notice that the date for the Advocate General\u2019s opinion in the case C-401\/19, which regards Article 17 of DSM Directive and compliance with users\u2019 fundamental rights, will be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/communia_eu\/status\/1382935166990102528\">postponed by almost three months<\/a>. This can crucially affect the highly-anticipated Commission guidance for Article 17 implementation that are supposed to include strong user rights safeguards. The latest development, however, can indicate that there are strong political pressures in the background, attempting to reduce users\u2019 rights in the upcoming guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Communia addressed the open letter to the Commission, urging it \u201cnot to weaken its guidance through open ended exception clauses that seem to benefit particular rightsholders at the expense of users\u2019 fundamental rights\u201d and not to diverge from its stance previously taken before the CJEU.<\/p>\n<p>As the DSM Directive implementation deadline looms, it will be interesting to see which stans the Commission will take in its highly-anticipated guidance.<\/p>\n<p>The Communia\u2019s open letter in full is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210419open_letter_article17_guidance.pdf\">here<\/a>, for more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communia-association.org\/2021\/04\/20\/open-letter-on-article-17-is-the-commission-about-to-abandon-its-commitment-to-protect-fundamental-rights\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open letter is a reaction to the CJEU\u2019s notice that the date for the Advocate General\u2019s opinion in the case C-401\/19, which regards Article 17 of DSM Directive and compliance with users\u2019 fundamental rights, will be postponed by almost three months. This can crucially affect the highly-anticipated Commission guidance for Article 17 implementation that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}