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Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 05 2018, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-noes dept.

canopic jug writes:

A crucial vote is coming up later this month in the EU's move to change its copyright laws. The proposed plans included mandatory content filters and a so-called link tax to be paid by sites linking to other sites, articles 13 and 11 respectively. TorrentFreak writes about the current status of the legislation and of the deadline to fix or block the proposed EU copyright legislation is coming up quickly and time is running out to salvage the situation regarding rules which will drastically affect the Internet.

Earlier on SN
European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse
Censorship Machines Are Coming: It's Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout
Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @09:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @09:25AM (#689238)

    Now that I have your attention, TFS is wrong. No link-tax. It's just clarification of copyright that you can't copy-paste someone else's shit and claim it's "just linking".

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by quietus on Wednesday June 06 2018, @12:35PM

    by quietus (6328) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @12:35PM (#689279) Journal

    The main source of at least one of the articles [Compromises on Copyright Maximalism [soylentnews.org]] submitted by canopic_jug on this topic was a lobbyist, working for Axel Springer SE. Axel Springer SE is Europe's largest owner of newspapers and magazines. Now why, oh why, could this company be funding a campaign to attack the very legislation which, if the sub is to believed, is designed to over-protect copyright, this publishing house's bread-and-butter?

    For more details on this, here's my reply [soylentnews.org] to the quoted article; see also the reply with header Politico attached to it.