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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

[ok I double-checked the date and it is from this month in this year ]

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" [privateinternetaccess.com] would require fees for even the tiniest quotations of published material as well as mandating upload filters. Either would effectively ban sites like SN from Europe, but scholarly publishing would suffer as badly [openmedia.org].

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