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0 pointsJumpCrisscross8y ago0 comments

I am having trouble identifying which part of this text is relevant to the original complaint about the bureaucratic burden imposed by this law on owners of websites with user-uploaded content, e.g. Hacker News.

If it's regarding the "insubstantial parts" clause, that language is immediately neutered in the next sentence: "Member States shall be free to determine the insubstantial nature of parts of press publications." TL; DR Watch twenty-eight national regulators each interpret the law according to their own whims. In the meantime, pay your European lawyers every time a user quotes a BBC article in a comment.

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teamhappy8y ago

Article 11 is the "link tax" one and article 13 is the upload filter one.

You seem to think that both articles are somehow connected. Article 13 only applies to sites that are upload services like YouTube and SoundCloud for example. They now have to implement content filters in order to avoid liability. Hacker News doesn't have to do anything.

DanBC8y ago

If you don't see how the text of the law is relevant to a discussion of the law there's not much I can do to help you.

> "Member States shall be free to determine the insubstantial nature of parts of press publications." TL; DR Watch twenty-eight national regulators each interpret the law according to their own whims.

They've managed to interpret fair dealing / fair use since the Berne Convention was introduced 1886. I think they'll manage.

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