Technological advancement and digitalisation have a major impact on the field of copyright and related rights. New ways of exploiting works and other protected subject matter have emerged with this advancement, but we have not yet managed to use legislation to resolve issues arising from it. As a result, the field of copyright law (especially cross-border elements) has many uncertainties. Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC is the European Union's attempt to harmonise and modernise the rules across Member States. With it, innovations that are meant to improve the digital single market were introduced, in particular by adapting certain exceptions and limitations to copyright and related rights, facilitating certain licensing practices, and including rules for facilitating the use of content in the public domain, rules on rights on publications, rules on use of content by online service providers storing and giving access to user-uploaded content, rules on the transparency of authors' or performers' contracts, rules on authors' and performers' remuneration, and the mechanism for the revocation of rights that authors and performers have transferred on an exclusive basis. In this thesis, I intend to concisely summarise the content of the Directive, analysing in particular the parts that have received the most public and professional attention, as well as analysing their impact.
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