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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by adrianratnapala on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:57PM (#17974266)
> Also, you can't have a single digital market without a single copyright regime. The economic union implies the single market which implies a single copyright directive.

Why?

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by majewsky on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:58PM (#17974711)
It's sort of like arbitrage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage

If, for instance, the left side of your single digital market has a copyright duration of 70 years after the death of the artist, and the right side has 90 years instead, then in effect, it's 70 years even on the right side because anyone can just go to the left side, trade copies of the expired works without paying licensing fees, then come back to the right side with those copies (because it's a single market).

So in effect, the regulation of the whole market is the weakest regulation of any part of it.

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