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

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by cge on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:19PM (#17973992)

Note that Article 2 point 4(b) appears to entirely excludes from Article 13 rules organizations that are "small" or "micro," which, unless I am mistaken, means organizations that have less than 50 employees and €10m turnover or balance sheet value.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by majewsky on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:10PM (#17974358)

I imagine that Google Europe and Facebook Europe will just slice themselves up into a swarm of subsidiaries that each have less than 50 employees and less than €10m turnover.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by nkassis on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:35PM (#17980591)

Don't they already have a corporation in Ireland with almost no employees and no profits due to selling licensed software made by the parent company at cost?

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by BrianOD on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:06PM (#18007740)

They employ many thousands of people in Ireland. So many that they've driven up property prices and rents beyond what the natives can afford in Dublin. Many employees are immigrants, for language reasons (Customer support, etc,) and programmers from East Europe. They typically service Europe, Mid-East, African markets from Ireland and sometimes elsewhere too.Brian at Netsso, worried about link tax, etc.

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