Giuseppe Colangelo Quoted in Courthouse News on EU Copyright Ruling and Digital News Payments
Courthouse News Service quoted Giuseppe Colangelo, Senior Scholar, in a piece examining a recent Italian court ruling on whether Meta must pay publishers for news content distributed on its platforms. Colangelo warned that the judgment could push Europe further toward a fragmented regulatory landscape, as individual countries develop their own publisher-payment frameworks outside a unified EU approach. He also called on the European legislator to revisit the Copyright Directive in light of the ruling.
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Giuseppe Colangelo, associate professor of law and economics at the University of Basilicata, warned the judgment could push Europe even further toward a patchwork of national rules as countries build their own publisher-payment systems around online news content.
He said several governments, including Italy, Belgium and Poland, have already moved beyond traditional copyright protections by creating negotiation frameworks inspired by Australia’s hard-line bargaining code for tech platforms.
“Unfortunately, today’s judgment appears to validate these distinctive forms of implementation of the Copyright Directive,” Colangelo said, warning the ruling could encourage more countries to follow the same path and deepen legal fragmentation across Europe’s digital market.
“It is now for the European legislator to consider, in the context of the forthcoming review process, whether the Copyright Directive should be reconsidered in order to ensure more effectively the attainment of its primary objective, namely the protection of the Digital Single Market, ” he added.