Article 13 voted in.
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The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13
Critics argued that Article 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech
Google has hinted that it may have to shut down Google News in response to the European Union's proposed "link tax", but EU politicians may be barking up the wrong tree when it comes to the controversial directive
https://buffered.com/blog/article-13-of-the-eus-copyright-reform-could-put-your-privacy-at-risk/
Article 58 no doubt to follow soon...
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For less serious discussion of this topic, go here
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"Google announces sale of YouTube to Alphabet. Alphabet, which now on paper has owned YouTube for less than 3 years, is exempt from the law."
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@PJH said in Article 13 voted in.:
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Google has hinted that it may have to shut down Google News in response to the European Union's proposed "link tax", but EU politicians may be barking up the wrong tree when it comes to the controversial directive
That's 11 though (or 15 after renumbering? I assume it's intentionally confusing).
Considering how many US websites have blatanly put up a "sorry, we can't be bothered to not sell your privacy to
the highest biddereveryone, so no access for you" in response to the GDPR, I hope Google just does the "give us a free license or get delisted" thing they did before, twice.
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@topspin It's lose-lose for google news.
They can't link to everyone because of this new stuff. But they also can't blacklist certain providers who don't sign a license with them because then they can't claim (or suggest) they're impartial anymore.
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@PleegWat said in Article 13 voted in.:
@topspin It's lose-lose for google news.
They can't link to everyone because of this new stuff. But they also can't blacklist certain providers who don't sign a license with them because then they can't claim (or suggest) they're impartial anymore.
How so? They did exactly the same thing when this BS was tried by Spain and subsequently Germany, and the idiots budged when their traffic crumbled. The law is still in the books here but doesn't have any effect.
You can't force someone to pay you for what's basically free advertisement.
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@bb36e dug up the existing thread again.
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@JBert whoops
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Called it
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@PleegWat said in Article 13 voted in.:
@topspin It's lose-lose for google news.
They can't link to everyone because of this new stuff. But they also can't blacklist certain providers who don't sign a license with them because then they can't claim (or suggest) they're impartial anymore.
You lack vision. They should blacklist everyone, then charge them to show their articles. So anyone that doesn't pay is going to lose views to those that do, and you can't be accused of being partial, you're just providing a service.
