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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: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:03AM (4 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:03AM (#543278) Journal

    Maybe it's Facebook that has lobbied this piece of citizen hostile amendment proposal?
    Otoh, French politicians have a slight history of trying to restrain and tax "bad culture", usually anything non-french.
    The open access journal amendment have a slight Evilvier taste to it.

    Find guilty members here [europa.eu]. The question is however who of these that voted this hostile proposal to even come into existence? Know which persons that are responsible and which parties that are responsible would enable voting and shaming them permanently. They are obviously crazy or in someones pocket.

    EU copyright reform goes from bad to worse [privateinternetaccess.com] (2017-07-17)

    German politician Axel Voss [eppgroup.eu]. His political group, the EPP, has just published its views on the copyright directive [eppgroup.eu], which largely back the European Commission’s original proposals, unsatisfactory as they are.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:48PM (3 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:48PM (#543445) Homepage Journal

    Maybe it's Facebook that has lobbied this piece of citizen hostile amendment proposal?

    Why would they? They'd have to pay the tax on every link every user posted. There's no money in this for them, only lost revenue.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:44PM (2 children)

      by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:44PM (#543465) Journal

      So who is likely to lobby this through EU?

      • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday July 24 2017, @02:50PM (1 child)

        by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday July 24 2017, @02:50PM (#543710) Homepage Journal

        Film companies, music companies, and of course text publishers. Maybe even newspapers.

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        • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:04PM

          by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:04PM (#544202) Journal

          Come to think about it. Newspapers seems really suspect.