Denmark steps into an EU court fight over what platforms owe publishers
Denmark has taken a side in one of the quieter but more consequential legal battles over how the internet pays for journalism. The Danish government has filed a written intervention at the Court of Justice of the European Union, backing Belgium in a case brought by a group of technology companies that dispute how Belgium enforces the press publishers’ right, according to Reuters.
It is the same right at the centre of a run of recent European rulings, including the one in which Meta lost an Italian publisher-pay case at the EU’s top court.
The dispute turns on Article 15 of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, the provision that gave press publishers a right to be paid when platforms reuse their content.
Belgium’s way of implementing that right is what the platforms are challenging, arguing that the national rules go beyond what EU law permits. Denmark,...
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