On April 5th, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez introduced Bill C-18, “An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news […]

Lukas Ruthes Gonçalves · June 2, 2022

*Edited 2/24/2021 to reflect new information* The debate is intensifying as Australian policymakers move closer to making the News Media […]

Project Disco · February 19, 2021

With the beginning of a new year comes a new step forward in Europe’s copyright reform. After months of debates […]

Maud Sacquet · January 17, 2018

“To make the EU’s single market fit for the digital age”, by “bringing down barriers to unlock online opportunities” was […]

Maud Sacquet · October 4, 2016

DisCo readers may remember that, last February, my colleagues Matt Schruers and Jakob Kucharczyk explained that Europe’s highest court, the […]

Maud Sacquet · September 9, 2016

Books, essays and endless longform think-pieces have been written about journalism and the internet, but that’s no reason not to […]

Frances Robinson · September 28, 2015

News media [1, 2, 3, 4] and previous DisCo posts [1, 2, 3, 4] have reported on several European countries’ […]

Matt Schruers and Jakob Kucharczyk · November 21, 2014

Yesterday, after a 5-year legal battle, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) concluded in the Newspaper Licensing Agency […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · June 6, 2014

The transformative and occasionally disruptive effect of the Internet on traditional news publishing has been widely discussed, and as DisCo […]

Matt Schruers · April 24, 2014

As the 21st century has not been too kind to news publishers, German legislators have proposed a subsidy in the […]

Matt Schruers · November 14, 2012