European Members of Parliament in Brussels have
rejected the two most controversial provisions of the proposed Copyright
Directive. They will go back to
negotiation for another possible vote in September.
The BBC has a news story now . I
expect to see an article on Ars Technica today (keep checking). The vote was
318-278 (EFF twtter).
Article 13 might have required Content-ID style
checking of all uploads, even text. Article 11 would have imposed a link tax,
or at least allowed countries to set up a licensing mechanism to even quote
snippets of news stories for newspapers in their countries. This did not work out very well for Spain.
The link tax was motivated by the supposed unfairness
of the way social media sites link news before sending it to users. But blogs like this one (through labels and
tags) also aggregate news. Some
observers in the publishing industry see this as unfair to newspapers and
contributing to revenue loss and job loss.
But newspapers can easily put up paywalls, which many do.
In fact, I’ve advocated consolidated paywalls, where
newspapers get together and offer deals to consumers.
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