European Union: Copyright in the Digital Single Market directive introducing fair remuneration provisions and transparency obligations enters into force

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Copyright in the Digital Single Market directive introducing fair remuneration provisions and transparency obligations enters into force

On 6 June 2019, the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market enters into force after being published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 15 May 2019. The Directive states that the authors and performers hav…

Scope

Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content remuneration regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
supranational
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament

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2016-09-14
under deliberation

On 14 September 2016, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on copyright and…

2019-04-17
adopted

On 17 April 2019, the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market was ad…

2019-06-06
in grace period

On 6 June 2019, the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market enters i…

2022-06-07
in force

On 7 June 2022, the transparency obligation outlined in Article 19 of the Directive on copyright an…