5 Critical Issues with the National Implementations of Article 17 EU DCDSM

Introduction In 2022 and 2023, Dr. Christina Angelopoulos, Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge, conducted research, including a detailed report for the Coalition for Creativity (C4C). The expert reports she collected and analysed have unveiled significant inconsistencies in the national implementations of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DCDSM) across the EU, which reshapes the liability frameworks for online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs). This...