Battle over EU copyright law heads for showdown (theguardian.com).
Amid last-minute writing and rewriting of amendments, the final outcome cannot be predicted. The proposals were rejected by the European parliament in July, despite earlier support in a relevant committee.
Having been a temporary reprieve for those fearing they will no longer be able to post critiquing music and movie clips on GoogleTube and plaster memes all over the rest of the web via the bill’s Article 13 “censorship machine” as well as Article 11’s “link tax” seemingly requiring a payment to link and quote to an article as with the The Guardian’s here rather encouraging a dubious “well I read…” obviously unbiased writeup of an issues “facts” yourself.
But the result of the amendment horse trading is somewhat uncertain, both the position and momentum of anything EU seemingly unmeasurable simultaneously with anything resembling the precision of actually targeting GoogleTube and Facebook in particular:
‘Every group split’ ahead of EU copyright vote (euobserver.com).
The 751 members of the European Parliament are due to make up their minds on how to reform the EU’s copyright regime by Wednesday (12 September)—but they are faced with a complex issue, several hundred amendments, and two opposed but intensive lobby campaigns.
Updated 12th September 2018
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