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Europe’s copyright fight is just getting started

EU lawmakers will have a month to re-craft complicated digital rules with a massive impact on the future of the internet.

  • Joanna Plucinska
  • Politico

Europe’s war over internet copyright rules isn’t over. It’s just entering a new — and potentially more brutal — phase.

JURI committee meeting. Vote on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
JURI committee meeting. Vote on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

The European Parliament voted Thursday to take the EU’s proposed overhaul of online copyright rules back to the drawing board, reopening talks on a controversial law that affects media, creative industries and internet giants.

If Europe’s copyright rules got enforced, Silicon Valley giants would be saddled overnight with vast new…

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