Following a lengthy consultation process, on Friday 4 June the European Commission unveiled guidelines on applying filtering measures under Article 17 of the Directive (2019/790) on copyright in the digital single market, which will be applicable from Monday 7 June (see EUROPE B12222A6).
The 2019 reform of the EU copyright rules introduced a controversial article, which is intended to reduce the gap between the profits that platforms make from protected content and what creators actually...