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Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC, European Union (EU)

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Year of Version 2019 Dates Entry into force: June 7, 2019 Date of Effect: June 6, 2019 Published: May 17, 2019 Signature: April 17, 2019 Type of Text Main IP Laws   Subject Matter Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights) Subject Matter (secondary) Enforcement of IP and Related Laws, IP Regulatory Body Notes The notification by the European Union to the WTO under Article 63.2 of TRIPS states:
'This Directive provides for rules to adapt certain exceptions and limitations to copyright and related rights to digital and cross-border environments, as well as for measures to facilitate certain licensing practices, in particular, but not only, as regards the dissemination of out-of-commerce works and other subject matter and the online availability of audiovisual works on video-on-demand platforms, with a view to ensuring wider access to content. It also contains rules to facilitate the use of content in the public domain and rules on rights in publications, on the use of works or other subject matter by online service providers storing and giving access to user-uploaded content, on the transparency of authors' and performers' contracts, on authors' and performers' remuneration, as well as a mechanism for the revocation of rights that authors and performers have transferred on an exclusive basis.'

Available Texts Main text(s) Main text(s) French Directive (UE) 2019/790 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 17 avril 2019 sur le droit d'auteur et les droits voisins dans le marché unique numérique et modifiant les directives 96/9/CE et 2001/29/CE PDF HTML English Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC PDF HTML Spanish Directiva (UE) 2019/790 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 17 de abril de 2019, sobre los derechos de autor y derechos afines en el mercado único digital y por la que se modifican las Directivas 96/9/CE y 2001/29/CE PDF HTML
Legislation Amends (2 text(s)) Amends (2 text(s))
Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (EU049)
Directive No. 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (EU005)
 Is implemented by (16 text(s)) Is implemented by (16 text(s))
Act No. 121/2000 Coll., of April 7, 2000, on Copyright and Related Rights and on Amendments to Certain Acts (Copyright Act) (as amended up to Act No. 429/2022 Coll.) (CZ121)
Act No. 429/2022 Coll., of December 8, 2022, Amending Act No. 121/2000 Coll., on Copyright and Related Rights and on Amendments to Certain Acts ("the Copyright Act") as amended, and Related Acts  (CZ119)
Law of March 23, 2023, on Amendments to the Copyright Law (LV161)
Act on Amendments to the Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 130/22 of October 11, 2022) (SI088)
Act on Amendments to the Copyright and Related Rights Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 130/22 of October 11, 2022) (SI087)
Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 63/16 of October 7, 2016, as amended on October 26, 2022) (SI086)
Law No. 230 of July 28, 2022, on Copyright and Neighboring Rights (MD162)
Law of April 1, 2022, Amending the Modified Law of April 18, 2001, on Copyrights, Related Rights and Databases; the Law of December 3, 2015, Relating to Certain Authorized Uses of Orphan Works; the Law of April 25, 2018, on the Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights and the Multi-Territorial Licensing of Rights in Musical Works with a View to their Online Use in the Internal Market, with a View to Transposition of Directive 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 17, 2019, on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market and Amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (LU064)
Decree No. 2021-1369 of October 20, 2021, Amending the Intellectual Property Code and Relating to Certain Online Content-Sharing Service Providers  (FR612)
European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 567/2021) (IE239)
Federal Law No. 244/2021 on Amendments to the Copyright Act, the Collecting Societies Act 2016 and the KommAustria Act (Copyright Amendment 2021 – Urh Nov 2021) (AT170)
Law No. 53 of April 22, 2021, on the Delegation to the Government for the Transposition of European Directives and the Application of Other European Union Law-European Delegation Law 2019-2020 (IT224)
Order No. 2021-1658 of December 15, 2021, Relating to the Transfer of Intellectual Property Rights to Assets Obtained by Software Authors or Inventors Being not Employees or Public Officials and Hosted by a Legal Person Carrying out Research (FR605)
Ordinance No. 2021-1518 of November 24, 2021, Supplementing the Transposition of Directive 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 17, 2019 on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market and Amending Directives 96/ 9/EC and 2001/29/EC (FR607)
Law No. 2020-1508 of December 3, 2020, on Various Provisions for Adapting to European Union Law in Economic and Financial Field  (FR602)
Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 556 of September 2, 2020, on Procedures for the Registration, Protection, Supervision and Control of Geographical Indications, Designations of Origin and Traditional Specialities Guaranteed of Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs (LV151)
WTO Document Reference
IP/N/1/EU/30
IP/N/1/EU/C/14
WIPO Lex No. EU240