New Year, New Copyright Developments
With the beginning of a new year comes a new step forward in Europe’s copyright reform. After months of debates […]
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The European Commission’s copyright proposal: the end of the Digital Single Market’s ambitions?
“To make the EU’s single market fit for the digital age”, by “bringing down barriers to unlock online opportunities” was […]
Hyperlinks Under Attack in Europe (or “When You Thought It Could Not Get Worse”…)
DisCo readers may remember that, last February, my colleagues Matt Schruers and Jakob Kucharczyk explained that Europe’s highest court, the […]
Journalism and the Internet: So Many, Many, Many Words
Books, essays and endless longform think-pieces have been written about journalism and the internet, but that’s no reason not to […]
Copyright Protection for Quotations? An Explainer on Ancillary Rights in Europe
News media [1, 2, 3, 4] and previous DisCo posts [1, 2, 3, 4] have reported on several European countries’ […]
Rejoice: Web Browsing Confirmed to Be Legal
Yesterday, after a 5-year legal battle, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) concluded in the Newspaper Licensing Agency […]
Spanish Snippet Tax Follows Trend of Targeting Internet Services
The transformative and occasionally disruptive effect of the Internet on traditional news publishing has been widely discussed, and as DisCo […]
Germany Looks to Prop Up News Publishers With Snippet Subsidy, But Is a Quotation Tax Legal?
As the 21st century has not been too kind to news publishers, German legislators have proposed a subsidy in the […]
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