THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BALANCE BETWEEN PRIVATE INTERESTS OF THE AUTHORS AND PUBLIC INTERESTS OF THE SOCIETY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Anastasiia Yefimenko

doi:10.23856/4816

Anastasiia Yefimenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4498-6927

Keywords: copyright, digital age, interests, DSM Directive, online content-sharing service providers, exceptions and limitations, press publisher’s rights

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the DSM Directive through the perspective of insurance the balance between private and public interests. The paper analyses how technological growth has led to the adoption of the DSM Directive, the goals set by the legislator and if they were met in the DSM Directive. The paper as well reviews key points of the DSM Directive and how it influences the interests of different parties in copyright. The article focuses on press publishers’ rights, new exceptions and limitations and use of protected content by online content-sharing service providers, that were introduced by DSM Directive. The gaps of the DSM Directive are also reviewed in this article and how they impact the disbalance of interests in copyright. The article as well provides brief analysis how instruments brought up in DSM Directive may influence the copyright outside the EU. Methods used in this research: general scientific (analysis, induction, deduction), legal methods (legal comparation, formal legal method).

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