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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) by Mykl on Friday June 22 2018, @02:56AM
After all, they'll need to allow for fair use surely?
Oh silly me, I forgot nobody paid anyone to ensure that's protected.
(Seriously though, it would be pretty easy to code something so that 'infringing content' must be more than a certain period e.g. 10 seconds and more than a certain percentage e.g. 10% to trigger a flag. This would protect movie reviews, fair use sampling etc)