The Express marks the passing of the EU Copyright Directive with a deep concern for memes. Article 11 requires search engines to pay news sites for links, while Article 13 will compel online-content platforms to filter posts that haven’t secured creators’ permissions. Mercifully, memes are “explicitly excluded” from persecution. So we’ve got […]
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Europe Won’t Break The Internet
In her column at The Times, Angela Mills Wade maintains that proposed new EU copyright laws will bolster independent journalism — not break the Internet as its detractors contend. The detractors, according to Mills Wade, are well-funded tech companies whose business models depend on recycling content from original producers, from newspapers and magazines […]