Reply To: EU link tax – Article 13

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http://www.consilium.europa.eu/nl/press/press-releases/2018/05/25/copyright-rules-for-the-digital-environment-council-agrees-its-position/

One really has to wonder what kind of bribes they’re taking when they created this monstrosity.
It’s like the flockin’ cookie law all over again.

Part of this reads like the EU version of the DMCA :
“Upon notification by rightsholders of an unauthorised protected work, an online content sharing service provider will have to take urgent steps to remove the work and prevent it from becoming available in future. ”

I doubt that moving the servier outside of the UK would help.
Google, Twitter and Facebook already have had to automate censorship because of this stupidity.

Oh … and we have this :

https://eutoday.net/news/business-economy/2018/bitter-row-over-copyright-law-intensifies-ahead-of-key-parliamentary-vote

vs (original archived text) :

https://web.archive.org/web/20180529173127/https://eutoday.net/news/politics//pressure-grows-ahead-of-key-parliamentary-vote-on-major-shake-up-of-eu-wide-copyright-laws?token=~v8Rq8nWWJwj9xZusVbof0wwTrT2j9B6

“… German publishing giant Axel Springer, the largest digital publishing house in Europe, with several well-known brands, such as Bild, Die Welt and also joint owner of Politico, is reportedly among those championing the new EU-wide legislation.

But the German EPP party has been accused of “openly lobbying” on behalf of Axel Springer by contacting members of the legal affairs committee and urging them to back the proposals in a vote by the committee on 20 and 21 June. …”

“… It is claimed that some committee members have been told of “possible repercussions” if they fail to support the proposal.

They have allegedly been told that to “stay away” from the meeting if they intend to reject the new law, with substitute members, who are more sympathetic to the plans, lined up to vote instead. ….”

Something rotten in the state of EU is all I’m saying.

And there’s this little beauty research that basically states that taxing links will do more harm as they already had to give Google ‘free’ access after the amount of visitors plummeted :

What the Commission found out about copyright infringement but ‘forgot’ to tell us