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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 gidds on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by gidds (589) on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:02PM (#543395)

    Any snippet, no matter how small?

    Certain companies seem likely to do rather well out of this: Collins, Chambers, Oxford University Press, Merriam-Webster, Longman, Macmillan...

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:55PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:55PM (#543472) Journal

    Maybe better to publish in the largest open access journal directly. I think it's called sci hub or so.. ;)
    No limit on quoting there..