| Title | Poland Challenges EU Copyright Directive | |
| Date | Tuesday May 28 2019, @10:43AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the a-program-to-push-buttons-randomly-is-a-lot-cheaper dept. | ||
The government of Poland has filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice against coypright rules adopted in April.
"This system may result in adopting regulations that are analogous to preventive censorship, which is forbidden not only in the Polish constitution but also in the EU treaties," Deputy Foreign Minister Konrad Szymanski told public broadcaster TVP Info.
Notably, Poland opposed the measure, and did so
despite the national newspapers running blank front pages the day before the key vote, with op-eds threatening retaliation against Polish politicians who crossed them.
The directive passed by five votes, but possibly it shouldn't have included the two most controversial provisions.
In the EU, if a Member of the Parliament presses the wrong button on a vote, they can have the record amended to show what their true intention was, but the vote is binding.
Today, the European Parliament voted to pass the whole Copyright Directive without a debate on Articles 11 and 13 by a margin of five votes.
But actually, a group of Swedish MEPs have revealed that they pressed the wrong button, and have asked to have the record corrected. They have issued a statement saying they'd intended to open a debate on amendments to the Directive so they could help vote down Articles 11 and 13.
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