The Regulatory Landscape
We’ll continue to reach out to government officials to discuss issues that are a priority for viewers, creators, and artists on our platform. It’s important that policymakers understand how their decisions could impact the growing creator economy.
As I wrote in the Wall Street Journal, we support regulation. After all, we currently comply with regulation in countries across the globe. But we also have concerns about new regulation that could have unintended consequences that would impact the creator community, particularly around the regulation of legal speech. Here are a few of the priority issues on the horizon for this year:
DSA: I’ve mentioned previously that the proposed Digital Services Act (DSA) in the European Union could have implications for online speech. After two years, the legislation is moving into the final stages and we are engaging with stakeholders to support a unified digital consumer protection framework across Member States that still allows YouTube to best serve our users.
Article 17: We continue to work with the member states of the European Union as they incorporate Article 17 (previously Article 13) of the EU copyright directive into local laws. Throughout the process, creator engagement has made a difference. Thank you for everything you’ve done to help ensure the law would be workable.
This year, we’ll work with policymakers around the world to advocate on behalf of the YouTube community.
At YouTube, we look forward to what lies ahead. We're focused on supporting the creators and artists who make YouTube their home and the people around the world who come to our platform every day to make their lives a little brighter.
We can’t wait to see what you’ll create next.