Under the new directive

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The ultimate goal of the new copyright law is for Facebook , Google and company to pay editors and journalists for the use of their content , according to Expansión . It is worth remembering, however, that several similar attempts implemented on a national scale ended up colliding with failure. In Spain, a similar initiative was adopted and finally Google News closed the door in our country. And in Germany, which also wanted to tighten the screws on the Internet giants, German publishers ended up throwing in the towel and renouncing their copyrights so as not to lose the web traffic that Google made available to them .

digital companies would also be required to implement a system for removing content that infringes copyright . However, the removal of content cannot be done indiscriminately.

Following the adoption of the law italy number screening by the EP, the ball is now in the court of the EU Council , which will have to adopt a common position on copyright.

Since Brussels announced its decision to reform the copyright law in 2014, the project has been mired in a heated debate . In fact, when the European Parliament was about to vote on an earlier version of the directive (which was eventually withdrawn) last July, MEP Virginie Rozière complained of threats.

Unlike the text from two months ago, the new one includes exceptions to free smaller digital platforms from the yoke of the new regulation and would also force publishers to share with authors (journalists in the case of “publishers”) the amounts paid in “copyright” by large digital companies. The rule also opens the door to the use of “individual words” in links. “The idea is to make it clear that if a headline or a paragraph from a news story is used, the platforms must remunerate the owner of the copyright,” the European Parliament points out.