After kicking it around the European Parliament for three years, the EU has finally passed its Copyright Directive. The contentious law was first proposed in 2016 and has been voted down as overbearing numerous times. The last time was back…
After kicking it around the European Parliament for three years, the EU has finally passed its Copyright Directive. The contentious law was first proposed in 2016 and has been voted down as overbearing numerous times. The last time was back in January of this year.
The main complaints against the directive, which was nicknamed the “Link Tax” by opponents, involved two articles within the legislation — Article 11 and Article 13 (now named Article 17).
Article 11 requires news aggregators to pay for quoted material that goes beyond “individual words or very short extracts.” The problem is that the terms and definitions used in the language of the law are very vague.
Google’s vision of what searches in the EU could lookalike under the new rules.
