Copyright Directive Now Law

On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, the European Union (EU) passed a measure that will nearly destroy their internet if allowed to continue. By a vote of 348-274, the “Copyright Directive”, long disliked by tech companies, academics and consumers, became law. Urged along by the music and movie industries, it will result in new bureaucracies as well as new cost increases and new legal challenges.

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An example of the likely bad effects, specifically from Article 11 and Article 13, would be for small content publishers in the EU. If they have to pay a “link tax” every time they quote a source, only the large media organizations will thrive. As a result, the content will be limited to what they can afford. This will result in less independent sources and journalists, a desired outcome by some of the law’s supporters.

Three Main Winners

Traditional Copyright Holders: Previously, you had fair use users of content; a film or music clip, a photo, etc. As long as you gave credit, you could talk about it, use it in a larger work and criticize it. Under the proposed terms, money must be collected for every use by the content channel. This means that your ISP or search engine is responsible for what is transmitted through its servers. This effectively gives them a requirement to police their users. This will be difficult and result in certain businesses and foreign-based services being unavailable in the EU. Large Content Providers and Main Stream Media: Used to negotiating with content creators, “Big Guys” will complain but accept paying more as the cost of doing business. The new regulations make the cost of entering and staying in business too expensive for the “Little Guys”, thus removing the pressures of unregulated competition. Enforcing Intellectual Property laws on the government’s behalf is an expensive proposition. The EU Government: Aside from their no-doubt generous cut of the enforcement income generated, the EU government can benefit in other ways. As a big, hardly accountable bureaucracy, it has a vested interest in squelching dissenting voices. Through the use of increasingly broad “hate speech” laws and stifling small operators, it can force the EU public to only see approved-of content. At that point, you have reached full totalitarian censorship.

Threat to Rest of the World

If the law passes, every money-hungry music, movie or other content making entity will follow suit. They will jump on the “ techstapo ” bandwagon. Small journalism will be rare, everywhere. Additionally, big media will make scarce views not deemed as acceptable. This stifles fair use and free expression to the benefit of big business and Globalism/tyranny.



According to Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl of Digital Europe, “If the main ambition of the commission and parliament was to create a non-fragmented digital single market where innovation in the creative sector can flourish, then this result is a complete failure.”

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