EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by isthatart on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:44AM (#17967965)

I'd like to see a discussion around these aspects. I see only cries re big platforms and news outlets.I'm neither of these.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by zaarn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:56AM (#17968789)

Smaller platforms are exempted on the directive (ie, startups, single person corporations, etc.) as well as anything that doesn't do profit oriented content/active content moderation.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by isthatart on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:02AM (#17968853)

But arXiv is not small, it has 1.4 million e-prints, is far bigger than most of other scientific platforms. It is non-commercial though.

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