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The DSM Directive and its Article 12 proceed in the trilo...
The proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market proceeds in the trilogue negotiations where the positions of the EU Commission, Council and Parliament will be discussed and the final directive text will be formed. The proposed DSM Directive offers many improvements to authors' position (e.g. Articles 14, 15 and 16) but also ar...
Article 12 is flawed from a legal and practical point of ...
The CMOs and authors’ organizations from several European countries have signed a petition to remove Article 12 from the proposed European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (COM/2016/0593). Article 12 concerns publishers’ right for compensation, and it would enable publishers to demand a share of the compensation for the...
Short history of the DSM Directive Proposal and its Artic...
The European Commission’s legislative proposal for the modernization of copyright has some suggestions for improving the authors' position but also very worrisome proposals from the point of view of literary authors and translators. After the Commission gave its proposal for the DSM Directive in September 2016, it has been discussed in the Cou...
