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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon, Filip Lukáš, Corynne McSherry | May 4, 2022

The EU's Copyright Directive Is Still About Filters, But EU’s Top Court Limits Its Use
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a long-awaited judgment on the compatibility of the EU Copyright Directive’s filtering requirements with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The ruling recognizes the tension between copyright filters and the right to freedom of expression, but falls...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | December 9, 2021

Newspapers vs Big Tech: Antitrust Tackles the Problems That Copyright Just Can’t Fix

More than 200 newspapers have filed suit against Google and Facebook (AKA “Meta”), alleging that the tech giants colluded to rig ad markets so that they could misappropriate ad revenues that were properly owed to the publishers. Strip away all the ornamental complexity and it’s obvious that the surveillance...
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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | November 10, 2021

European Parliament’s Plans Of A Digital Services Act Threaten Internet Freedoms
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The EU's Digital Services Act is a chance to preserve what works and to fix what is broken. EFF and other civil society groups have advocated for new rules that protect fundamental rights online, while formulating a bold vision to address today's most pressing challenges. However, while the initial...
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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | July 15, 2021

Article 17 Copyright Directive: The Court of Justice’s Advocate General Rejects Fundamental Rights Challenge But Defends Users Against Overblocking
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The Advocate General (AG) of the EU Court of Justice today missed an opportunity to fully protect internet users from censorship by automated filtering, finding that the disastrous Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn’t run afoul of Europeans’ free expression rights. The good news is that the...
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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | June 3, 2021

The EU Commission's Refusal to Let Go of Filters

The EU copyright directive has caused controversy than any other proposal in recent EU history - and for good reason. In abandoning traditional legal mechanisms to tackle copyright infringement online, Article 17 (formerly Article 13) of the directive introduced a new liability regime for online platforms, supposedly in...
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Article 13

Article 13

The EU's Copyright Directive Is Still About Filters, But EU’s Top Court Limits Its Use

Newspapers vs Big Tech: Antitrust Tackles the Problems That Copyright Just Can’t Fix

European Parliament’s Plans Of A Digital Services Act Threaten Internet Freedoms

Article 17 Copyright Directive: The Court of Justice’s Advocate General Rejects Fundamental Rights Challenge But Defends Users Against Overblocking

The EU Commission's Refusal to Let Go of Filters

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