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Why Americans Should Worry About the New EU Copyright Rules

Julia Reda on why US academics and activists should be paying close attention to the response and reaction to New EU Copyright Rules:

“While the benefits of Article 17 for artists are questionable because the automated filters tend to privilege large rightsholders and limit the ability for authors to creatively build upon the works of others, their main economic effect is likely to be to give a boost to the content filtering technology industry — hardly what the EU lawmakers had been hoping for.”

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