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Europe’s Digital Services Act enters into force

j.o.weideBACKGROUND, DIGITAL, MEDIA

Brussels, 16 November 2022 Today a landmark new set of EU rules for a safer and more accountable online environment enters into force with the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA applies to all digital services that connect consumers to goods, services, or content. It creates comprehensive new obligations for online platforms to reduce harms and counter risks online, introduces strong protections for users’ rights online, and places digital platforms under a […]

EU Commission Q&A: The EU copyright rules

j.o.weideBACKGROUND, DIGITAL, MEDIA

Brussels, 4 June 2021 What is the new Copyright Directive about? Digital technologies have transformed the way creative content is produced, distributed and accessed. The Copyright Directive is a new piece of EU legislation that brings the copyright rules up to date with those changes and with the online world. It aims to create a comprehensive framework, which will benefit a wide range of players acting in the digital environment: internet users, […]

The European Digital Rights and Principles – Background

j.o.weideBACKGROUND, DIGITAL, MEDIA

Link The Commission has proposed a declaration on European digital rights and principles to promote a digital transition shaped by European values. The Commission wants to ensure people are empowered to fully enjoy the opportunities that the digital decade brings. So, it has proposed a set of European digital rights and principles that reflect EU values and promote a sustainable, human-centric vision for the digital transformation. The European digital rights […]

Monitoring regulatory policies

j.o.weidePROJECTS

Regulatory monitoring services are a key expertise of Comecon Media. We are monitoring almost all parts of regulation in the European Union, as well as several national and global sources of regulation.  In our understanding, regulatory processes start whenever a legal proposal is internally discussed or drafted, monitor the debate and amendments, and look at the final results and their impact and implementation. Some of our readers are undecided whether […]

The EU Directive on television and radio programmes – EU Commission Q&A

j.o.weideBACKGROUND, MEDIA

By CM – June 04, 2021 Brussels, 4 June 2021 What were the challenges for online transmission and retransmission of television and radio programmes that the new Directive on television and radio programmes is addressing? Broadcasters are increasingly offering their broadcasts online (for instance through their simulcasting or catch-up services). However, such online programming often remained unavailable in other Member States, even if there was interest abroad to access it. The ‘clearance of rights’ […]

Recovery and transformation of media and audio-visual sectors

j.o.weidePROJECTS

By CM – June 04, 2021 Source: Recovery and future transformation of Europe’s media and audio-visual sectors – Committee on Culture and Education During its committee meeting on the 27 May 2021, the CULT Committee held an exchange of views on an own-initiative report (INI) recommending ways towards recovery and deep transformation of the media and audio-visual sectors in Europe. During the exchange of views following the presentation of the draft report, questions were […]

Italy: EU Commission approves €120m to support newspaper publishers

j.o.weideNEWS

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €120 million Italian scheme to support publishers of newspapers and periodicals. The scheme aims to ensure the availability of newspapers and periodicals in Italy and to protect the quality of the Italian language in printed publications. Under the scheme, newspaper and periodical publishers will be entitled to tax credits covering up to 30% of the paper costs incurred in […]

How Europe’s Media Freedom Act is going to work

j.o.weideNEWS

Free media are a key pillar of every democracy and they are essential for a healthy market economy. On a global scale, the European Union remains a stronghold for free media, setting a standard as a democratic continent. Yet, there are increasingly worrying trends. Building on past efforts, the Commission has taken a number of measures to protect media freedom and pluralism in the EU. This has culminated in the European […]

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