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posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 22 2018, @12:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the hyperlink-taxation dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:19AM (#696596)

    I believe this will happen only if a good sized majority of us know exactly who is behind all this, and make it damn clear they will no longer spend any time as a public representative if they don't fix this mess.

    I know good and well my Congressmen are mixed up in this, and they are certainly not representing *me*. Their only purpose seems to be a deflection shield for getting corporate wish lists codified into statutory law. I find it extremely frustrating that we do not organize likewise, and overthrow the R&D apple cart, and vote some people into power that are accountable to the people who voted them in.

    But for now, we still seem to be too influenced by the microphone-men, the mailers, and the press... and who controls those? We've gotta stop giving those corporate buffoons the time of day.