The debate is on "link taxes" (no linking to news unless the service you're on bought a license from the site you're linking to) & "censorship machines" (all your text, stills, video, code, audio is checked against a database of copyrights and censored if they seem like a match)
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(ANYONE can add ANYTHING to the blacklists of "copyrighted works" -- videos of police brutality or official corruption or just the complete works of William Shakespeare, and there's no penalty for making fraudulent claims)
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Only the big US companies could afford this nonsense, meaning that all possibility of Made-in-the-EU alternatives to Big Tech with its harassment and surveillance will be snuffed out forever.
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The EU is proposing to sell American Big Tech a license to permanently dominate the internet, in exchange for a few million tossed at German newspaper families and other European Content Barons -- and everyone else loses out, stuck on a US dominated net forever.
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We only have until Wednesday and the vote will be on a hair's-breadth margin. PLEASE visit https://saveyourinternet.eu to do something about it -- and then TELL TWO EUROPEAN FRIENDS about this!
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It's an abomination.
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Absolutely - there's no way automated systems can be made to parse out and understand these agreements
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FYI, there is a company that copyrighted millions of musical note combinations for the purpose of charging license fees. Someone posted a you tube of a cardinal singing and received a cease and desist for infringement.
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Which company is doing this?
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