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Re:The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need... by Zak on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:50AM (#18576985)
The sort of images most commonly posted to reddit are screengrabs from movies or games with text added for humorous effect. This sort of use has traditionally been classed as fair use under copyright law.

Penalizing reddit for doing so would not result in more revenue for the creators of the source material.

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Re:The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need... by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:02PM (#18577917)
If anything it results in less. Memetic sharing of snippets of content leads lots of people to get interested in the source material, seek it out and pay for it.
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Re:The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need... by Zak on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:51PM (#18578190)
Indeed. I recently binge-watched four seasons of a series on Netflix after seeing a Youtube montage of the lead character murdering people.
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Re:The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need... by oh_sigh on Saturday December 01, 2018 @06:44PM (#18579775)
What series?
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Re:The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need... by Zak on Saturday December 01, 2018 @07:33PM (#18580003)
The Blacklist.
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Re:The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need... by pergadad on Saturday December 01, 2018 @06:44PM (#18579778)
That's not illegal under the EU directive though...
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