Democracy shield: Commission announces a revision of the Copyright Directive

Posted by Isabelle Szczepanski le 13 novembre 2025

The European Commission, with its Democracy Shield, announces the reopening of the 2019 Copyright Directive.

The Democracy Shield unveiled yesterday by the European Commission marks an unexpected turning point in the landscape of digital regulation. While the plan aims above all to consolidate the European Union’s resilience in the face of disinformation, foreign interference and the rise of artificial intelligence, it contains an announcement that will immediately arouse the attention of the cultural sector: the reopening of Directive 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market. ElectronLibre had announced…

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