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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | July 15, 2021

Article 17 Copyright Directive: The Court of Justice’s Advocate General Rejects Fundamental Rights Challenge But Defends Users Against Overblocking
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The Advocate General (AG) of the EU Court of Justice today missed an opportunity to fully protect internet users from censorship by automated filtering, finding that the disastrous Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn’t run afoul of Europeans’ free expression rights. The good news is that the...
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Document | June 29, 2021

Civil society letter on the Digital Markets Acts - EU Parliament (IMCO)
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | June 11, 2021

The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly

In Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability, we took a thorough look at the privacy implications of various kinds of interoperability. We examined the potential privacy risks of interoperability mandates, such as those contemplated by 2020’s ACCESS Act (USA), the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act (EU),...
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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | June 3, 2021

The EU Commission's Refusal to Let Go of Filters

The EU copyright directive has caused controversy than any other proposal in recent EU history - and for good reason. In abandoning traditional legal mechanisms to tackle copyright infringement online, Article 17 (formerly Article 13) of the directive introduced a new liability regime for online platforms, supposedly in...
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Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | March 18, 2021

Twitter, Trump, and Tough Decisions: EU Freedom of Expression and the Digital Services Act

This blog post was co-written by Dr. Aleksandra Kuczerawy (Senior Fellow and Researcher at KU Leuven) and inspired by her publication at Verfassungsblog.Suspension of Trump’s Social Media Accounts: Controversial, but not unprecedentedThe suspension of the social media accounts of former U.S. President Donald Trump by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,...
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Article 17 Copyright Directive: The Court of Justice’s Advocate General Rejects Fundamental Rights Challenge But Defends Users Against Overblocking

Civil society letter on the Digital Markets Acts - EU Parliament (IMCO)

The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly

The EU Commission's Refusal to Let Go of Filters

Twitter, Trump, and Tough Decisions: EU Freedom of Expression and the Digital Services Act

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