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Safeguarding User Freedoms in Implementing Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: Recommendations from European Academics

By Giancarlo Frosio on

The implementation of Art. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (C-DSM) Directive is ongoing. In particular, the multi-stakeholder dialogue under Art. 17(10) of the C-DSM Directive is happening as I write. To the end of promoting public interest in the implementation process, a group of European academics (including João Quintais, Stef van Gompel, P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Martin Husovec, Bernd Justin Jütte, Martin Senftleben and myself) has drafted a document with recommendations on user freedoms and safeguards included in Article 17 of the DSM Directive. The document has been edorsed by more than fifty academics already. Below you find a brief summary of the statement:

The statement is available here.

My own take at the final version of Art. 17, "Reforming the C-DSM Reform: a User-Based Copyright Theory for Commonplace Creativity", is also available here.