On May 24th, 2019, Poland sent a request to the CJEU about Article 13. They are concerned that it will kill the freedom of speech and will put a negative effect to The Digital Single Market. A few days later, the court accepted the request that they will look into it in the foreseeable future. Now, the court has begun working on new court cases and it just happened to be that one of them is Poland VS Article 13.



We now know exactly what Poland's plan is, and it may not be what you think. Poland's main goal isn't trying to kill the entirety of Article 13, at least not yet. It's actually to take down Section B and C of Article 13. What's Section B and C you may ask?



Section B and C is without a doubt, the worst aspect of the copyright directive. They are the sections that can't allow you to post something UNLESS you have a licence. That's not even all that they do.



So, it should be simple enough for the court to only kill Section B and C of Article 13, right? Wrong. If the court fails to kill Section B and C only without destroying anything else of the directive, only then will Article 13 be eliminated.



We don't know an exact date on when the court makes a final decision, but the earliest they could would be on May 24th, 2020. Whether part or the entirety of Article 13 dies, the case will be interesting to say the least.