@inbook{56134c53b5de4e6392de41e25a87fa3c,
title = "Democratic discourse in the digital public sphere: Re-imagining copyright enforcement on online social media platforms",
abstract = "Within the current European Union (EU) online copyright enforcement regime — of which Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive [2019] constitutes the seminal legal provision— the role of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) is limited to ensuring that copyright owners obtain fair-remuneration for content shared over their platforms (role of {\textquoteleft}content distributors{\textquoteright}) and preventing unauthorized uses of copyright protected content ({\textquoteleft}Internet police{\textquoteright}). Neither role allows for a recognition of OCSSPs{\textquoteright} role as facilitators of democratic discourse and the duty incumbent on them to ensure that user freedoms to engage in democratic discourse are preserved. This essay proposes a re-imagining of the EU legal framework on online copyright enforcement — using the social planning theory of copyright law as a normative framework — to increase its fitness for preserving and promoting copyright law{\textquoteright}s democracy enhancing function.",
author = "Sunimal Mendis",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-86146-9",
pages = "41--46",
editor = "Carlo Ghezzi and Edward Lee and Erich Prem and Hannes Werthner",
booktitle = "Perspectives on digital humanism",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
address = "Germany",
}