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The DSA Newsletter #1

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posted on November 2, 2022November 2, 2022
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In the coming months, I want to share some useful DSA resources on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. Here is the first batch of the DSA-related resources that I found useful and want to share with you. The DSA was published as Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19

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The DSA text is officially out

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posted on October 27, 2022October 27, 2022
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The Official Journal of the European Union just published the final text of the Digital Services Act

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Why Article 17 DSMD should be invalidated? [talk transcript]

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posted on February 11, 2022February 13, 2022
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This is a slightly edited version of the transcript of my talk given at the conference hosted by the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in December 2021. The talk is also available as a video-recording here

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The Slovak Constitutional Court on Risk Profiling and Automated Decision-Making by the Tax Authority

The Slovak Constitutional Court just published its eKasa decision, dealing with the constitutionality of indiscriminate data collection of store receipts and their subsequent re-use for risk profiling of companies. Context Some years ago, the Slovak legislature adopted a law mandating the collection of all store receipts in the country. Every receipt issued by a sole

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Trusted Content Creators

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posted on October 25, 2021October 27, 2022
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The Digital Services Act reignited the debates about how to treat professional journalists in the see of user-generated content which is often of doubtful quality. Some even go as far as to suggest that journalistic content should be entirely carved out of platform responsibilities or that the content shall enjoy near must-carry status. I am

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How to fix the over-removal of legal content?

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posted on October 19, 2021October 19, 2021
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This is a short briefing paper submitted to the House of Lords about how to tackle the problem of over-removal on platforms by re-designing the incentives at

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CJEU redefines sui generis database right

On 3 June 2021, the CJEU handed down its judgment in CV-Online Latvia v Melons (with Ilešič as a reporting judge), a case involving Melons’ infringement of CV-Online Latvia’s database of job advertisements arguably protected by the sui generis right. The case significantly alters the previous case law on the infringement test. Read my and