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Poland, the CDSM and the Court of Justice: Still Searching for the ‘Essence’ of the Fundamental Right to Freedom of Expression

November 11, 2022

by Kevin O'Sullivan

COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte co-hosted the Filtered Futures conference on 19 September 2022 to discuss fundamental rights constraints of upload filters after the CJEU ruling on Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD). This blog post is based on the author’s contribution to the conference’s third session “Beyond […]

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CJEU hearing in the Polish challenge to Article 17: Not even the supporters of the provision agree on how it should work

November 12, 2020

by Paul Keller

On Tuesday, November 10, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard case C-401/19. This case is a request by the Polish government to annul the filtering obligation contained in Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive on the grounds that it will lead to censorship and will […]

The Copyright Directive challenged in the CJEU by Polish government

June 1, 2019

by Natalia Mileszyk

Copyright not only regulates the interests of creators and intermediaries, but also applies to users’ rights. This was one of our main arguments in the discussion on Article 17 of the new copyright directive, which was often disregarded by our opponents. In our opinion Article 17 is not well-balanced and creates threats to freedom of […]

Summary of 2015 amendments to the Polish Copyright Act

December 17, 2015

by Natalia Mileszyk

The summary has been written by Adam Karpiński and the public policy team of Centrum Cyfrowe. In October 2015, Poland completed the process of amending the national Act on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights. Its aim was to adapt Polish law to the EU requirements: the Directive 2011/77/EU (the Directive amending the Directive on the term […]

Polish Copyright Collection Societies and Their Financial Data

September 17, 2015

by Natalia Mileszyk

Copyright Collection Societies (CCSs) are organisations traditionally set up by authors, performers, and other kinds of rightholders to collectively manage their rights. Nowadays, there are more than 250 CCSs in the EU. Copyright Collection Societies collect around €6 billion in royalties in the EU every year. The vast majority of this income feeds into the […]

Poland restricts access to digitized cultural heritage

February 10, 2015

by Katarzyna Strycharz

Soon the most valuable digital works of art and culture may be available all around Europe, free of charge, licenses, watermarks, and in open, machine-readable formats. Together with their metadata they can be used to not only promote rich heritage of our culture, but also to build innovative applications, web services and boost the creative […]