Date: 8/12/2022

Time: 10:00-12:30 CET

Platforms’ content moderation has been subject to substantive regulatory interventions over recent times; first and foremost with the CDSM Directive and the Digital Services Act (DSA). Time to take a step back and look at accountability – how is the present situation and how should the future look?

Among other topics, we will discuss:

Overlaps and missing pieces: Post-DSM Directive and DSA, where do we go from here, what is missing?
Transparency: in light of mandatory data access regimes for researchers, how can these be operationalised for the study of content moderation?

Panellists/participants will be announced on an on-going basis.

Registration

To sign-up for the workshop, register here.

Organisation

This workshop is part of the reCreating Europe work package 6 on intermediaries, where we study the content moderation of online platforms. At this workshop, we will explore content moderation and removal rules at EU and national level and the interplay with the legal framework conditions as well as removal practices’ and technologies’ impact on access and diversity.

The workshop is jointly organised by the University of Bremen’s Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab (Christian Katzenbach) and the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Information and Innovation Law (Sebastian Schwemer).

“The implementation of the CDSM Directive: snapshots into the future of EU copyright law”

21 June 2021, 2:00 – 6:00 PM (CEST)

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In the context of our cross-disciplinary and transnational research activities, we are glad to invite you to our next web conference on the process of implementation of the CDSM Directive.

The conference will feature two keynote speakers, Professor Raquel Xalabarder (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and the First Advocate General Maciej Szpunar (Court of Justice of the EU), two presentations of CDSMD implementation trackers, and four thematic panels. Each panel will be devoted to a topic that is touched by the Directive and has been subject to ReCreating Europe’s research (exceptions and limitations, authors’ remunerations and reversion right, automated content-filtering, preservation of cultural heritage). The presentation of our interim results will be commented upon by respondents representing stakeholders, policymakers, legal experts and the civil society. We look forward to your participation in the discussion!

PROGRAM

2:00-2:05 pm – Greetings, introduction of reCreating Europe (Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Coordinator, reCreating Europe)

Keynotes

2:05-2:20pm – The aftermath of CDMSD: where do we stand, where shall we go? (Raquel Xalabarder, Professor of Intellectual Property, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

2:20-2:35pm – The future of EU copyright harmonization: which role for the CJEU? (Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union)

2:35-2:45 Q&A

Intermezzo: implementation trackers

2:45-2:55pm – CDSMD implementation tracker (Martin Kretschmer, Professor and Director, CREATe – University of Glasgow)

2:55-3:05pm – The new copyrightexceptions.eu (Paul Keller, President, Communia)

Panel sessions

3:05-3:45pm – Panel 1: Remuneration and reversion rights

Chair: Rebecca Giblin (Associate Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, IP Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA))
Presenters: Ula Furgal (Research Fellow, CREATe – University of Glasgow), Joost Poort (Associate Professor and Vice-Director, IViR – University of Amsterdam)
Respondents: Eanna Casey (Chairman of the Board, Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights (SCARP)); Cecile Deniard (Vice-President, European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL))

3:45-4:00pm Virtual coffee break (in breakout rooms)

4:00-4:40pm – Panel 2: A new era for copyright exceptions and limitations?

Chair: Christophe Geiger (Professor of Law, CEIPI – University of Strasbourg)
Presenters: Caterina Sganga (Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Thomas Margoni (Research Professor, KU Leuven; Fellow, CREATe)
Discussants: Agustin Reyna (Director, Legal and Economic Affairs, BEUC), Jeremy Rollinson (Senior Director of European Government Affairs, Microsoft)

4:40-5:20pm – Panel 3: Setting the rules for automated content-filtering

Chair: Eleonora Rosati (Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Stockholm)
Presenters: João Pedro Quintais (Assistant Professor, IViR – University of Amsterdam), Sebastian Schwemer (Associate Professor, CIIR – University of Copenhagen)
Discussants: Cédric Manara (Head of Copyright, Google), Martin Husovec (Assistant Professor, LSE)

5:20-6:00pm – Panel 4: Preservation of cultural heritage

Chair: Andrea Wallace (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter)
Presenters: Giulia Dore (Research Fellow, University of Trento), Marta Iljadica (Lecturer in Law, CREATe – University of Glasgow)
Discussants: Ariadna Matas (Policy Advisor, Europeana); Ben White (Chair of Copyright Working Group, LIBER)

Platforms’ content moderation & accountability – Evaluating the present and looking into the future