On 24 June 2021, the Luxembourg Government, acting through the
Ministry of the Economy, introduced a Bill of law No. 7847 aiming
at transposing into Luxembourg law the Directive on copyright and
related rights in the Digital Single Market1 (the "New
Copyright Directive") adopted on 17 April 2019.
This bill of law follows a public consultation launched in
February 2021 by the Luxembourg Government relying on a proposed
draft legislative text and, in that respect, we note that the
proposed text of the bill does not drastically deviate from the
initial draft text of that public consultation.
As expected, the proposed bill contemplates modifying the
Luxembourg Law of 18 April 2001 (as amended) on authors' rights
in particular by adding:
