The New Copyright Directive finally transposed into Luxembourg law!

What happened?

On 1st April 2022, Luxembourg enacted the law 1 aiming at transposing into Luxembourg law the Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“New Copyright Directive”) adopted on 17 April 20192.

This new law modifies the three following laws:

• the Law of 18 April 2001 on authors’ rights, related rights and databases, as amended,
• the Law of 3 December 2015 on certain authorised uses of orphan works, and
• the Law of 25 April 2018 on the collective management of author’s rights and neighbouring rights.

What are the key takeaways?

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