As EU lawmakers finalize the text of the European Copyright Directive, Google has revealed how badly the new rules could impact traffic to European news sites.
Google, YouTube, and some digital rights groups, have been lobbying against Article 11 and Section 13 of the directive, which the European Parliament approved in September.
Article 11, called the ‘link tax’ by opponents, requires anyone who copies a snippet of text from a publisher’s articles to have a license to do so. Article 13 demands that online platforms filter and block uploads of copyright-infringing material.
