“Germany was the main battleground over last year’s adoption of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). After 200,000 people took to the streets against impending restrictions of their freedom of communication, the German government promised to avoid the use of upload filters in its national implementation. One of the governing parties, the Christian Democrats, even went as far as promising that there would be ‘no upload filters’ as a consequence of Article 17 of the DSM Directive …” (part 1, part 2)
[Julia Reda, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 9-10 July]
First posted 2020-07-10 15:54:06
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