Copyright in the Digital Single Market: Another Hard-Hitting EU Directive
The European Parliament has once again made a seismic ruling affecting the digital landscape across the continent, with MEPs voting 348 against 274 (36 abstentions) to implement a series of hard-hitting internet copyright laws. Two provisions within the directive, articles 15 and 17 (confusingly these were changed last minute from articles 11 and 13), have generated the most controversy.
Article 15 rules that news aggregator sites, such as Google News and Reddit, should pay a fee to publishers when the aggregator […]
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