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Copyright in the Digital Market – European Creators ask for support against free-riding tech giants and media manipulation

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee adopted a critical report on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on 20th June clarifying and confirming the copyright liability of services such as YouTube and Facebook. However, the same companies are orchestrating a huge campaign spearheaded by the Pirate Party and carried out by organisations that are directly or indirectly funded by them to challenge this law at a Plenary vote in Strasbourg next week (5 July).

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Adoption by the COREPER of a General Approach on the Copyright Directive – 25th May 2018

The Council discussions have been long and at times quite difficult on many different issues. GESAC respectfully acknowledges all the efforts of those Member States that have tried to keep the main objective of this legislative initiative, that is to provide a better position for creators and the creative sector vis-à-vis the giant platforms. Such platform services grow at the expense of creators by knowingly and ruthlessly benefitting from the vagueness of the current law as regards their copyright-relevant acts.

 

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Copyright Directive – GESAC welcomes JURI vote that adopted Article 13

The Legal Affairs committee confirms that big UUC platforms need to comply with authors’ rights

20/06/2018 – Today in Brussels, the JURI Committee voted on the long-discussed Copyright Directive and adopted Article 13 with a clear majority. The European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC) welcomes this result, which is an important step towards ending the big platforms’ free riding.

 

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