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Disclosure Obligations And Liability Of UUC Platforms In Focus

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In the first to the point: technology & digitalisation newsletter in fall 2019 we reported about referrals to the CJEU

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In the first to the point: technology & digitalisation newsletter in fall 2019 we reported about referrals to the CJEU concerning disclosure obligations and liability of user uploaded content (UUC) platform providers in relation to illegal (copyright infringing) uploads. While Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Ma

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