EU countries approve new copyright restrictions on Facebook and Google

Apr 15 2019 by Fast Company

 

The European Commission first began discussing the new copyright measures two years ago as a means to protect the bloc’s creative industries, which are worth over $1 trillion.

The European Union’s sweeping new copyright legislation has passed its final hurdle, reports Reuters. Nineteen EU states, including heavyweights France and Germany, have endorsed the new proposals that will require Google to pay publishers for the news snippets it displays on search results and its News sites....

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