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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 nobu_the_bard on Friday June 22 2018, @01:13PM
Interesting thought... to oversimplify a bit, you can summarize a small time musician has having basically two choices:
1. No rights control at all, anyone can use it for anything = the artist has no control over it
2. Sign rights control over to various automated systems and processes, they control everything = the artist has no control over it
You could try to manually control things, whether directly or through people you delegate, and thus have actual control - but the time and costs are probably prohibitive for a small timer.