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Direktiva 2019/790 o avtorski in sorodnih pravicah na enotnem digitalnem trgu, ki jo morajo države članice prenesti v svojo zakonodajo do 7. junija 2021, prilagaja evropski okvir avtorskega prava tehnološkemu napredku in novim načinom uporabe avtorskih del, ki jih omogočajo digitalna tehnologija in globalna komunikacijska omrežja. V ta namen na novo ureja izjeme in omejitve pri avtorskih pravicah za digitalno in čezmejno okolje, prinaša usklajena pravila za izboljšanje praks licenciranja, da bi se zagotovil širši dostop do kreativne vsebine, in uvaja nova pravila, s katerimi naj bi oblikovala dobro delujoč trg za avtorske pravice. Burne javne polemike v času sprejemanja direktive so se osredotočile zlasti na tiste nove rešitve, ki naj bi spletne tehnološke velikane, kot so Facebook, Google in Twitter, primorale k delitvi svojih prihodkov z imetniki avtorskih in sorodnih pravic, kritiki pa menijo, da bodo bolj prizadele navadne uporabnike interneta. V skrajnem primeru lahko nova pravila potisnejo imetnike avtorskih pravic v še večjo odvisnost od velikih internetnih korporacij. Manj pozornosti so bile deležne druge, nedvomno koristne novosti, ki bodo olajšale nekatere načine uporabe del v digitalnem okolju.

Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, to be transposed by the Member States into their legislations by 7 June 2021, adapts the European copyright framework to technological progress and to the new ways of using copyrighted works facilitated by digital technology and the global communication networks. To this end, it reforms copyright exemptions and restrictions in the digital and cross-border environment, provides harmonised rules for improving licensing practices to provide a wider access to creative content, and introduces new rules to create a well-functioning copyright market. Fierce public polemics, at the time of the adoption of the directive, focused in particular on those new solutions that are supposed to force online giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, to share their revenues with holders of copyright and related rights. Critics feel that ordinary internet users will be more affected by the new rules. In the worst case, the new rules may push copyright holders into even greater dependence on big internet corporations. Less attention has been paid to other, undoubtedly useful novelties, which will facilitate some uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment.

New Regulation of Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market