The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) clarified on Tuesday 22 June, in a Grand Chamber judgment in joined cases C-682/18 and C-683/18, platform operators’ liability, such as YouTube and Cyando when copyrighted works are illegally uploaded by their users.
It held that, as EU law currently stands, operators of online platforms do not themselves make a communication to the public of copyrighted content that their users illegally upload, unless those operators contribute, beyond...