European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
&quot;The biggest and most worrisome changes are to the &quot;link tax&quot; proposal, which would establish a special copyright-like fee to be paid by websites to news publishers, in exchange for the privilege of using short snippets of quoted text as part of a link to the original news article. Voss&#x27;s latest amendments would make the link tax an inalienable right, that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to.&quot;<p>&quot;...that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to.&quot;<p>This is horrendous.<p>I generally favor: &quot;Do not ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.&quot;<p>However this seems like a blatant attempt to shut down any interpretive or third party news sites in favor of centralized media control.