#JWPBlog – Important Changes in Copyright Law in 2022
The deadline for the implementation of EU Directive 2019/790 on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (the so-called DSM Directive), adopted by the European Parliament and the Council (EU) over 2 years ago, expired on June 7, 2021. To date, only few EU countries have fulfilled this obligation.
Poland, which from the very beginning has criticised the Directive and challenged its Article 17 before the Court of Justice of the European Union, remains far behind in the race to fully implement this regulation. At the end of 2021, works on the draft amendments to national copyright law finally made it to the list of legislative and policy-making works of the Council of Ministers, and the draft is planned to be adopted in the second quarter of 2022.
