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The EU proposes a nightmare version of the Link Tax!
Today, a draft of the copyright law we’ve been anticipating was leaked and it confirms the worst. The EU Commission is going ahead with giving unprecedented powers to publishing giants – including the the Link Tax – giving them the ability to charge fees when snippets of text are used in hyperlinks. Continue reading
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EU Commission: Yes, we will create new ancillary copyright for news publishers, but please stop calling it a “link tax”
Well that was quick: just two days after Commissioner Ansip delivered a non-denial denial that “this Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks” Statewatch published a draft of the Commission’s own Impact assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules which clearly states that the Commission will indeed propose the introduction of an… Continue reading
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The Internet: The future of the link depends on you
Legislators in the European Union have a plan — a terrible, Internet-breaking plan1 — that could soon see links lose their power to expose us to knowledge, culture and new ideas online. Tell them what you think of their scheme today. “Whose idea was this?!” you cry. None other than the usual suspects: giant publishing… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 