Lumen Presents Comments to the Third Meeting of the Stakeholder Dialogue on Art. 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market in Brussels

The EU is currently conducting a series of meetings and dialogue between various stakeholders regarding the national implementations of Article 17, one of the new pieces of EU Copyright law. Art. 17 addresses "Use of protected content by online content-sharing service providers"

The Stakeholder Dialogue (art. 17(10)) is its 2nd phase (3d and 4th meetings): fact-finding about specific practices & tools. Lumen, as an aggregator of copyright takedown notices,was invited to give a short presentation on December 16th, 2019, addressing the project's perspective and experience, along with commentary on observed trends,and highlights of empirical research relying on Lumen data. Other presenters included Facebook, Seznam, Wattpad, Audible Magic, BEUC, GESAC, ICMP (Universal), EPC (Ardito project), FEP, Bertelsmann and Telefonica.

A slightly longer written version of Lumen's remarks, including citations, is below. A PDF of the remarks can be found here, and the recording of the livestream of the day's events can be found here. Lumen's participation begins at approximately 4:00:00 into the recording.