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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @03:34PM
yep. screw these @#$%#@$%^. site operators in the eu should be responding with overwhelming force. if these stupid weasels get this filter enforced how long would it be before they filter everything else they don't like. i'm sure "hate speech" like "copyright lawyers are parasites" would be on the chopping block. why are they so scared of ideas? the internet is not for keeping people dumb and they hate that. you idiots can't stop shit but i hope you die for trying.