The reform of copyright in the EU is on hold after a dispute between the Member States over the changes. A closing meeting scheduled for today by MEPs, representations of EU countries and Commissioners was canceled. „Quite disappointed because of this delay,“ wrote EU Digital Commissioner Andrus Ansip on the short message service Twitter.
#Copyright: Quite disappointed about this delay. I think we should not on the last meters.
– Andrus Ansip (@Ansip_EU) 18 January 2019
In the final meters, everyone involved should not lose sight of the great progress that has been made. Given the EU general election in May, the time pressure on the negotiations is growing.
Several Zanzäpfel
Two of the points raised in the legislative proposal, which have been met with resistance, especially in the case of large technology groups, are the icing on the cake in the two-year debate. Chapter eleven is all about the introduction of an EU-wide ancillary copyright law designed to ensure that, for example, online platforms like Google must pay for the use of previously published online articles.
Chapter 13 looks at how online platforms such as Google’s affiliate YouTube, Instagram, and GitHub should pay royalties to artists and other rights owners as they distribute their songs and videos.
To understand this, they would have to upload filters are used – a controversial software that checks when uploading, whether it comes to violations. Critics see it as a loophole to remove unpleasant content from the network. The current dispute is mainly about which companies could be spared because of their size to apply such filters.
