The EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) covers traditional broadcasting services as well as audiovisual media services provided on-demand, including via the Internet. Art. 13(1) provides for Member States to secure a minimum 30% share of European works in the catalogues as well as "ensuring prominence" of those works. "Prominence" involves promoting European works through facilitating access to such works using any appropriate means to ensure prominence of European works. The Directive has been implemented by Member States in different ways, ranging from very extensive and detailed measures to a mere reference to the general obligation to promote European works.
Estonia has implemented Article 13 via the Media Services Act. For European works, Section 8(3) Broadcasters shall reserve at least 51% of their transmission time (excluding the time allotted to news, sports events, competitive entertainment programmes, advertising, teleshopping and teletext services) for European works. For European works independent from broadcasters, Section 8(4) Broadcasters shall reserve at least 10% of their transmission time (excluding the time allotted to news, sports events, competitive entertainment).

The Estonian government issues sanctions on Russian app Yandex. The reason provided is that individuals using the application Yandex must provide access to a considerable amount of personal data, which is processed by the company on the servers located in Russia. To prevent the collection and use of Estonian data by the Russian authorities, the government is banning the application, requiring app stores to restrict downloads of the Yandex application.

Current tensions with Russia has induced the Estonian regulatory authority to block Russian websites for geo-political reasons. It is reported that in February 2022, the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) ordered telecommunications operators to restrict online broadcasting of six pro-Kremlin TV channels, including RTR-Planeta, RTVI, Rossiya 24, REN TV, NTV Mir, and PBK, for twelve months in an effort to limit Russian war propaganda. In March 2022, the TTJA ordered the blocking of another TV channel RBK (RBC TV), seven websites (ntv.ru, ren.tv, 5-tv.ru, 78.ru, 1tv.com, lenta.ru, and tass.ru.), and 12 internet channels, whose “content incites to commit offenses towards national security and national defense, to the detriment of the security of society,” according to a TTJA press release.

The Directive 2000/31/EC (E-Commerce Directive) is the legal basis governing the liability of Internet Services Providers (ISPs) in the EU Member States and includes a conditional safe harbor. Not all Member States have transposed the relevant articles consistently, leading to divergent national case law that could cause legal insecurity on an EU level.
The Information Society Services Act (ISSA) is based on the EU e-Commerce Directive (Directive 2000/31/EC).

The Directive 2000/31/EC (E-Commerce Directive) is the legal basis governing the liability of Internet Services Providers (ISPs) in the EU Member States and includes a conditional safe harbor. Not all Member States have transposed the relevant articles consistently, leading to divergent national case law that could cause legal insecurity on an EU level.
The Information Society Services Act (ISSA) is based on the EU e-Commerce Directive (Directive 2000/31/EC).

Under the EU Directive on Data Retention, operators were required to retain certain categories of traffic and location data (excluding the content of those communications) for a period between six months and two years and to make them available, on request, to law enforcement authorities for the purposes of investigating, detecting and prosecuting serious crime and terrorism. On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive invalid. However, not all national laws which implemented the Directive have been overturned.
In Estonia, the Law on Electronic Communications requiring traffic and location data retention remains in place. § 111 and § 112 provide for the requirement of communications undertakings to retain various communications metadata (including, but not limited to, location data) for the period of one year from the date of the communication.

Estonia has a telecommunications authority: the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (ETRA). However, it is reported that the decision-making process of this entity is not fully independent from the government.

It is reported that there is no requirement for functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom sector. However, accounting separation is required in certain cases.

It is reported that passive sharing is mandated in Estonia, and it is practiced in mobile based on commercial agreements. In addition, Directive 2014/61/EU (Art. 3.2) establishes that Member States shall ensure that, upon written request of an undertaking providing or authorised to provide public communications networks, any network operator has the obligation to meet all reasonable requests for access to its physical infrastructure under fair and reasonable terms and conditions, including price, with a view to deploying elements of high-speed electronic communications networks. Such written request shall specify the elements of the project for which the access is requested, including a specific time frame.

The Directive 2016/943 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) is key in harmonising national laws concerning trade secrets. Estonia transposed the Directive through the Restriction of Unfair Competition and Protection of Business Secrets Act and through a series of amendments to the Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Code of Civil Procedure.

Estonia has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

It is reported that Estonia has high rates of software and content piracy. Several industries benefiting from copyright, and in particular the software industry, are concerned about the weak overall enforcement in Estonia. Moreover, TV piracy is especially common in the three Baltic countries (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania). It was reported in 2021 that Estonia exhibited the highest number of monthly accesses to pirated content per user.

Estonia has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Estonia is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

There is no general principle for the use of copyright protected material comparable to the fair use/fair dealing principles. Directive 2001/29/EC defines an optional, but exhaustive set of limitations from the author´s exclusive rights under the control of the “three-step test” in line with the Berne Convention that establishes three cumulative conditions to the limitations and exceptions of a copyright holder’s rights. The Directive has been transposed by Member States with significant freedom.
The Copyright Act grants exceptions under § 17-27 and 75 provided that there is no commercial use of said rights and that the free use does not harm the legitimate right holders.