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EU Committee Approves Controversial Copyright Directive

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• I don't normally bitch about the editors... I don't normally bitch about the editors... (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 22 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)

  by tangomargarine (667) on Friday June 22 2018, @03:01PM (#696768)

  But come on.

  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.

  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.

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• Re:I don't normally bitch about the editors... (Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday June 22 2018, @03:59PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday June 22 2018, @03:59PM (#696789) Journal

  Hmmm … but how can you implement a comparison to copyrighted stuff if you have no access to copyrighted stuff? Obviously everyone provide such a service must be granted access to the copyrighted stuff, in order to write a filter for it, right? And since anybody can provide such a service … :-)

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