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A European parliament committee has voted in favour of the Copyright Directive, leaving tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon in the lurch over publication rights.
The directive will force online publications to pay a portion of their revenues to publishers, and take on full responsibility for any copyright infringement on the internet.
As a result, any service that allows users to post text, sound, or video for public consumption must also implement an automatic filter to scan for similarities to known copyrighted works, censoring those that match.
The vote passed by the legal affairs committee is likely to be taken as the political body's official line during further EU negotiations next month, unless a new vote is forced by lawmakers appealing the decision.
Julia Reda has more details of the vote
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @01:41AM
Indeed. This is the greatest gift the EU could ever hope to give the Silicon Valley giants. This will deliver their domestic market to Google et al with wrapped in a little bow cementing dominance by giant US corps. for as long as this law exists assuming it ultimately passes. The little guys can't compete as they don't have access to the scale and the technology Google has. Besides, if Google doesn't get it right, they break out the lawyers, pay a fine and continue on their merry way. As far as the payments from publishers, Google just stops listing them and they wither away. Or even worse, local-interest EU content gets hosted on servers outside of the EU and they get listed by Google as the "news" and the EU newspapers get nothing. The stupidity is unbelievable.