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Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by krn on Thursday July 05, 2018 @06:58AM (#17462262)
"US Congress quietly slips cloud-spying powers into page 2,201 of spending mega-bill"[1].

Could the EU copyright law be slipped in the same way?

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/23/cloud_act_spending_...

Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by chki on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:16AM (#17462346)
Technically: maybe. But the EU legislative process is very transparent (which is partially caused by the different legislative bodies that need to participate) and the European Parliament would probably not approve of such a hidden policy change.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by krotton on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:02AM (#17463303)
Actually they did (in 2005) try to slip a vote on software patents in by scheduling it for an "Agriculture and Fishery" meeting. Luckily, they failed.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/jan/23/eusd...