FACUA warns that the new 'copyright' regulations are a danger to freedom of expression

FACUA-Consumers in Action warns that the new regulation that transposes the European directive on copyright, the so-called Iceta Law, is a danger to freedom of information and expression, by opening the door for streaming platforms to live/directly censor content from being streamed that they consider pirated without previous judicial guarantees.

Royal Decree-Law 24/2021 (link in Spanish) transposes the European Directive 2019/789, which includes the new rules that apply to copyright in the field of the European Union (EU), among others. In practice, its article 73 obliges platforms to censor any content subject to intellectual property uploaded by users withou