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Newspaper: EU Copyright Law Stifles Innovation


 

  • The LA Times published a scathing (well, impassioned) editorial arguing that the EU’s new Copyright Directive could squash small companies that promote aspiring music and movie creators.

 

  • To comply with the new law, everyone publishing content will need to employ sophisticated filtering technology that prevents such intolerable copyright abuses as parents sharing videos of their children singing Disney songs.

 

  • Small companies simply can’t afford it — and are likely doomed.

 

  • The Times sheds a tear for the pragmatic beauty of U.S. law, where content-publishing sites must remove content only when notified of infringement.