European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill

Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by sebst on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:20AM (#17354655)

False. They will shoot themselves in the foot, yes. But at least in Germany, Google is the only entity which was granted a free "licence" by the collecting society.

This puts Google in a better place than any other news aggregator.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by pas on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:51AM (#17354877)

Any lawsuit in progress with regards to that?

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by Filligree on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @09:16AM (#17355036)

It's not illegal, so that would require a law change. Which is what this article is about.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by pas on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:54AM (#17355949)

It sounds very much like discrimination - if no other aggregator / news site gets the same treatment.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by sebst on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:27AM (#17356277)

Interesting argument. Because this is the same anti-trust argument the publishers used against Google: "Google has monopolistic power, so they should be obliged to list our content (and then, pay)".

On that argument the Spanish version of the copyright law, Google decided to shut down News for Spain completely.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by drak0n1c on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:28PM (#17357501)

Even the most well-intentioned regulations often end up benefitting the largest and most entrenched industry players. The term is "regulatory capture".

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