Reddit says EU's copyright law is “a significant blow to the open Internet”; Wikimedia says it's disappointed by “the missed opportunity to modernize copyright”
plus a new IP right for sports organizers. Julia Reda / @senficon : Catastrophic Article 11 vote: The European Parliament just endorsed a #linktax that would make using the title of a news article in a link to it require a license. #SaveYourInternet #SaveTheLink pic.twitter.com/hWti1XyoQi Ryan Merkley / @ryanmerkley : The @verge has a quick post: “What's clear is that if the Copyright Directive receives final approval by the European Parliament in January, it will have a huge, disruptive impact on the internet, both in the European Union and around the world.” Yup. http://www.theverge.com/... Ben Sasse / @bensasse : Web services “might decide to implement the directive globally, which would diminish American users' capacity to share memes, political satire, or news articles online.” http://www.wired.com/... Zach Coelius / @zachcoelius : The great thing about the EU doing stupid stuff regarding the internet is that it serves as a nice lesson to the rest of the world-class when the inevitable consequences result. Celso Martinho / @celso : Cookies, gdpr, content filters and whatnot (the list will keep growing), because you know, regulation and protectionism is what we need. Pretty soon we'll need a notary around before entering a website. Makes the adtech industry look like paradise, by comparison. Morons. http://twitter.com/... @wired : This bombshell ruling could force Instagram, Medium, WordPress, and more to monitor their users' posts for copyright violations. What's more the platforms would be liable. http://www.wired.com/... Daniel Dalton / @ddalton40 : Disappointed with #Copyright result. Article 11 & 13 virtually unchanged, this is not good for the future of tech in Europe, & I don't believe it will help creators either but it will introduce filtering. Much more legal content will get taken down. pic.twitter.com/pS8olzlGyS @swiftonsecurity : Europeans are so myopically obsessed with their inferiority grievances against a few American companies they're willing to screw the Internet for everyone through sheer incompetence. http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer