The European Union’s Copyright Directive was approved in 2019. Five years later, it is finally being implemented across the EU, with Poland the final member state to do the necessaries. Before it was passed in 2019 there was a bitter lobbying battle between some tech firms and the music industry over its provisions around safe harbors and rights enforcement – the infamous Article 17 of the directive. It was the peak of the ‘value gap’ conflict between rightsholders and YouTube.
Source: EU Copyright Directive finally implemented in all its countries