Luxembourg: Adopted Bill to implement the Directive (EU) 2019/790 on the copyright in the Digital Single Market (Bill 7847)

On 1 April 2022, Bill no. 7847 implementing EU Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the Digital Single Market was adopted by the Parliament of Luxembourg. In particular, the Bill amends the Luxembourg law of 18 April 2001 on copyright, the law of 3 December 2015 on orphan works use and the law of 25 April 2018 on the collective management of copyright and the multi-territorial licensing of musical copyright of musical works that are hosted online. The Bill introduces: -exceptions to author's rights as regards text and data mining information and out-of-commerce works used for teaching or research purposes; -neighbouring rights (rights of reproduction) for press publishers covering online uses of their press publications by information society service providers; -a liability regime for online content-sharing platforms that requires the authorisation of right holders for the content uploaded on their websites, and the adoption of measures to avoid unauthorised uploads (i.e., content filters); -a principle of appropriate remuneration of authors and performers in the utilisation of their rights and a mechanism to allow them to ask for additional compensation.