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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @01:31AM (2 children)
Small ones can't pay for the overhead of scanning. And based in what happened with Google News in Spain, it could mean a bigger massacre, hitting everyone.
For those that still didn't hear about it, Spanish newspapers wanted to be paid for the links & quotes in Google News so they pushed for a law to force aggregators to pay everyone (no exceptions)... and Google just dropped the service as response when the law took effect (newspaper articles still appear via plain search, but mixed with other things... and Google Search has become rather crappy in recent years anyhow). Small news sites that were getting traffic via GN are in worst situation now (small win for handful of big media corps, less competition). In Germany big publishers also wanted money for traffic from search links... and Google stopped indexing them until they asked to be linked again because traffic was going down.
The more time passes, the more I believe it's all a game of lobbies, in which they don't care if the full place is burnt down to the ground mid term (some years, not long term), as long as current quarter they get one extra cent over the rest. Lack of action about human trafficking (aka migrants in PC mass media), diesel engines still being developed, slow push toward renewables (sometimes with artificial obstacles added)... retarded EU corps meet useful idiots in bureaucracy. We didn't learn anything from centuries of wars.
(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.
(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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