It means you can sue Google for damages, so that Google's responsibility becomes to prevent copyright thefts. That way, you don't have to run around trying to chase down a phantom no-name dude on the internet.

And if you can keep the copyright-theft'd works off of Google, Bing, and other big name search engines... then you've basically won in this day and age.

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Yeah, its an extreme measure. But its pretty clear cut how Article 13 helps in this case. Link Tax (Article 11) may also play a role, but its less obvious IMO.

> It means you can sue Google for damages, so that Google's responsibility becomes to prevent copyright thefts.

Nope. You can not. Google is not a content sharing platform which is what Article 13 is about.

You can do the same as before: Send a takedown request to google. Again, literally nothing changes here.