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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by pierreb on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:12AM (#19491987)
Sorry -- not all affected platforms are run by "big corporations". All for-profit plateforms over 3 years old are affected, even small ones. This will severely harm the EU startup scene in that category.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by unicornporn on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:34AM (#19492186)
> All for-profit plateforms over 3 years old are affected, even small ones

https://www.politico.eu/pro/germany-weighs-in-on-copyright-w...

So, what happened to that? ^

Parliament wanted:

> Apply the law to platforms that “optimise and promote” significant amounts of user-uploaded works and are not small businesses (turnover below €10M and less than 50 employees)

According to: https://juliareda.eu/2018/10/copyright-trilogue-positions/

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by makomk on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:41AM (#19492265)
Apparently, France happened to that: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by unicornporn on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:53AM (#19492372)
So you're saying this is what passed? If it wasn't for the "Available to the public for less than 3 years", I wouldn't be as worried.

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Upload filters must be installed by everyone except those services which fit all three of the following extremely narrow criteria:

* Available to the public for less than 3 years

* Annual turnover below €10 million

* Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by Gudahtt on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:17AM (#19492622)
Yes, this is what passed.

The "5 million unique monthly visitors" point is concerning too, because that term is not clearly defined.

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by kaybe on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:35AM (#19492199)
Does that rule contain a definition of 'platform'? I probably cannot just change the name every 3 years, can I?
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by pierreb on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:27AM (#19492697)
The term they use is "online content sharing platform" + some rules about organizing content. Please see the text, it is a bit messy, I think it is better than quoting parts of it here. Depends on how you interpret it.