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Europe's Controversial 'Link Tax' in Doubt After Member States Rebel (theverge.com) 30

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Copyright activists just scored a major victory in the ongoing fight over the European Union's new copyright rules. An upcoming summit to advance the EU's copyright directive has been canceled, as member states objected to the incoming rules as too restrictive to online creators. From a report: The EU's forthcoming copyright rules had drawn attention from activists for two measures, designated as Article 11 and Article 13, that would give publishers rights over snippets of news content shared online (the so-called "link tax") and increase platform liability for user content. [...] After today, the directive's future is much less certain. Member states were gathered to approve a new version of the directive drafted by Romania -- but eleven countries reportedly opposed the text, many of them citing familiar concerns over the two controversial articles. Crucially, Italy's new populist government takes a far more skeptical view of the strict copyright proposals. Member states have until the end of February to approve a new version of the text, although it's unclear what compromise might be reached. Further reading: EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations On EU Copyright Directive As It Becomes Clear There Isn't Enough Support.
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  • This just in (Score:5, Funny)

    by nwaack ( 3482871 ) on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:49PM (#57983766)
    Super-douchy, insanely stupid law is pissing people off. News at 11.
  • waiting for the European Union to collapse under the weight of its own bureaucratic stupidity

    • You won't have to wait much longer. (Oh, who am I kidding? The UK will cuck itself and find a way to stay in the EU.)

    • When has a government collapsed under the weight of bureaucracy? Normally it's the governments that eliminate bureaucracy altogether that quickly collapse.

      • The Roman Empire.

        Now stop pretending that you know stuff.

        • Errr no. The Roman Empire fell due to idiots running the place, poor military decisions, and ultimately was overthrown rather than collapsing in on itself. The Roman empire was a lot of things but it was far from bureaucratic by any modern standards.

          Now let me quote something I read on the internet to you:

          Now stop pretending that you know stuff.

    • waiting for the European Union to collapse under the weight of its own bureaucratic stupidity

      Wow the stupid is strong in this one.

      This happens in literally every functioning democracy in the world.

      1. Someone/party/group proposes incredibly asshatty law.
      2. People in a position to vote on it say no.
      3. Incredibly asshatty proposal fails and the law is not created.

      But for some reason the thing you took away from that was (and I paraphrase) "dur teh EU *drool*". Seriously this happens in all levels of governmen

  • To think that there could be political and public welfare complications from a company owning the news.

  • Translation: Romania was simply the cheapest country to bribe.

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