This article was first published in German at Übermedien.de on March 31, 2022.
Last week, the EU reached an agreement on a core piece of platform regulation, the Digital Markets Act. The Digital Markets Act contains rules for digital companies with high market power, so-called gatekeepers. These are large companies that provide an exceptionally widely […]
more ›When the European Union adopted the new copyright directive, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member States time until June 2021 to introduce the new rules into their national copyright laws. France, the most fervent supporter of Article 17, apparently has no time to lose and just presented the new […]
more ›While several factors have driven the decline in newspaper revenues and in the number of legacy newspapers, news aggregation has an opposite effect
The risks that may be created by news aggregation platforms for media plurality in news consumption cannot be addressed through copyright.
These quotes are not from the Pirate in the European Parliament […]
more ›This morning, Politico Europe published a draft report [paywalled] by Therese Comodini Cachia (EPP), the Member of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee responsible for the Parliament’s reaction to the Commission’s copyright reform proposal. MEP Julia Reda (European Pirate Party, Vice President Greens/EFA group) comments:
We now know that none of the controversial centrepieces of the copyright reform […]
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Julia speaking at CREATe Festival 2016 London (Foto by @LionelBently)
This is the transcript of my speech at CREATe Festival 2016 in London, UK on June 24th, 2016, the day after the EU referendum.
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