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martyb
on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:46PM
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
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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EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:53PM (1 child)
I wonder how long it will take for a politician to use this to remove postings with quotes the politician would rather we didn't read?
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:11PM
> I wonder how long it will take for a politician to use this to remove postings with quotes the politician would rather we didn't read?
In the EU they can already do that. The politicians thorn in the side atm is non EU companies like Google and FB who refuse to do it, hence the threats of fines etc... if they don't co operate. I Suspect they will co operate when the price is right.
This legislation however, would grant similar rights to private companies, I guess a nice example of the "slippery slope" in action.