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: 2) by darkfeline on Friday June 22 2018, @06:26PM
This is just biting the hand that feeds them. Indexers, linkers, and even piracy is just free advertising. If you're demanding free advertisers pay you for the privilege or try to ban them outright, you have zero business sense and deserve to go out of business. If you're a small business owner with business sense, but got fucked by big corps pushing the stupid new laws, welcome to capitalism, enjoy your stay.
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