This article was first published in German at Übermedien.de on March 31, 2022. Last week, the EU reached an agreement on a core piece of platform regulation, the Digital Markets Act. The Digit...
https://felixreda.eu/2022/04/digital-markets-act-publishers-ancillary-copyright/
This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license. GitHub is currently causing a lot of commotion in the Free Soft...
https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
From March 1, I am embarking on a new project. With the support of the Shuttleworth Foundation, I will be returning to my home town of Berlin to work full-time on advancing access to knowledge an...
When the European Union adopted the new copyright directive, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member States time until June 2021 to introduce the new rul...
Now that my mandate in the European Parliament has come to an end, there is one important project that will still go on until the fall of this year: The European Free and Open Source Software Aud...
For years, my colleagues in the European Parliament and I worked on the EU copyright reform – on improving the Commission’s original proposal, but above all, on preventing the worst. More tha...
The controversial EU regulation on terrorist content online is making its way through the European Parliament close to the end of the mandate – traditionally a time MEPs face an extreme amount...
After the European Parliament adopted the Copyright Directive last week without even considering changes, one final step remains: Its approval by the Council of Ministers. Last chance to stop upl...
There is unprecedented public opposition against Article 13 and other aspects of the EU Copyright Directive: This weekend, up to 200.000 people took to the streets across Europe. Meanwhile, the p...
In the evening of February 13, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council concluded the trilogue negotiations with a final text for the new EU Copyright Directive. For two years ...