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"We’ve written numerous posts about the EU Copyright Directive, because it
contains two extremely harmful ideas. The first is the “snippet tax“, an
attempt by some press publishers to make sites like Google pay for the
privilege of displaying and linking to newspaper publishers’ material – an
assault on the Web’s underlying hyperlink technology. The second element is the
upload filter, probably the worst development in the copyright world of the
last few decades.
The EU Copyright Directive is not just a bad law, it is a badly drafted law.
That’s proved by the fact that three years after the Directive was passed, and
nearly a year since what was supposed to be the deadline for transposing it
into national legislation, fewer than half of the EU’s Member States have done
so [...]"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
