On November 30, 2020 the European Commission published its first short-term report on the geo-blocking regulation. This publication was well awaited since voices said that the report was ready since March 2020 […]
Art. 15 of the Copyright directive establishing a press publishers’ right over news aggregators and online platforms in general cannot be implemented via a mandatory collective licensing system. This is the answer […]
The Australian Government intends to instruct the national competition authority (ACCC) to force Google and Facebook to pay-up for news content through a new specific piece of legislation named News Media Bargaining […]
The fragmentation of the European audiovisual market In a few weeks the European Commission will return to a controversial issue, that is, the persistent geographical segmentation of the European audiovisual market. In […]
The next European Commission may cause headache to dominant OTTs in Europe. In fact, the allocation of the portfolios announced today by the appointed President Von der Leyen reveals the intention to […]
[continuing from the previous post about the link-tax] Art. 17 (former 13) of the Copyright Directive, concerning the liability of online content-sharing platform and the upload filters, is the most “systemic” part of the European […]
The new Copyright Directive have been approved by the European Assembly with an important but not large majority: 348 in favor, 274 against, 36 abstention. Quite an important number of MEP avoided […]
UPDATE 5 February 2019: Germans and French delegations found a kind of agreement reported in a new compromises proposal by the Romanian presidency, whereby the exemption in favor of SMEs is eliminated while […]
Attenzione! …. for those who perform acts of piracy from the Internet connection at home. The fact of residing in a home with other roommates, all potentially capable of using the […]
Today the plenary session of the European parliament approved the controversial copyright reform proposal submitted by the rapporteur, Axel Voss, with a majority of 438 members (approx. 60 vote above the needed […]
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