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EU Set To Vote On Far-Reaching Copyright Law

  • Wired UK, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 1:58 PM

Ahead of Wednesday's vote, Wired UK considers the EU’s proposed copyright law, which would require Web platforms to automatically filter uploaded content. The would-be law would oblige large sites to use “‘content recognition technologies’ to scan for copyrighted videos, music, photos, text and code in a move that that could impact everyone from the open source software community to remixers, live streamers and teenage meme creators,” it writes.

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