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EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For

posted by martyb on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.

canopic jug writes:

A new Copyright Directive is being drafted for Europe. Within that process the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) has agreed to an amendment that would greatly reduce citizens' rights in regards to online material and even digital material in general. The "snippet tax" aka "link tax" would require licenses for even the tiniest quotations of published material as well as mandating upload filters. Either of these would effectively ban sites like SoylentNews from Europe, but scholarly publishing would suffer as badly.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:36AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:36AM (#543181)

    ban sites like SoylentNews

    Yes! Yes!

    (uncork the wine)

    Start up the music!

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:42AM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:42AM (#543186) Journal

    Start up the music!

    Can't... It's copyrighted

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:24AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:24AM (#543198)

      Pssst!

      https://creativecommons.org/ [creativecommons.org]

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:45PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:45PM (#543444) Homepage Journal

    Cowboy Neal? Is that you?

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