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Europe's Controversial 'Link Tax' in Doubt After Member States Rebel (theverge.com)
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.
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
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
To think that there could be political and public welfare complications from a company owning the news.
Bruce Perens.
the new "Global Democratic Union".
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
"do something rational for a change"?
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I'm sure that helps B no end, cutting views too. How stupid do they think we are? Don't answer that, it's obvious and rhetorical.
Government finding ever new ways to steal from all while saying it's for our best interest. Riiiiiiight.
The link tax was not a literal tax. It was directly from aggregator A to news publisher B, by government mandate, but the government does not collect or remit any money in the process. It would have just enforced the payments.
Thankfully the stupid ideas, which the directive was jammed full of, will all be going away for a while. Until the next time when the prop-up-my-obsolete-business-model brigade returns to try again. I might have some shred of sympathy if they weren't also bedfellows with the greedy-fuck-gimme-more-money-for-nothing brigade.
Follow the money. What are the EU nations doing with all the extra tax money?
Who are the nations in the EU having to spend so much new tax money on?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Except of course that "tax" was just how it was reported. In reality it was a fee that the copyright holders would collect so no money would go to the EU or any of it's member countries.
Translation: Romania was simply the cheapest country to bribe.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What are the EU nations doing with all the extra tax money?
what extra tax money. Oh wait there isn't any because the law didn't get passed.
Please, don't let reality hit you in the ass on the way out.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
There are no enforcement costs. This is just like the tape tax that also is nothing like a tax in where the collection of the fees will be handled by a non governmental company that is created and funded by the copyright industry. This whole stupidity comes 100% from the politicians believing the copyright lobby groups when they cry that the bad evil internet is eating all their profits and have zero to do with EU wanting money.