Today, the European Partliament voted in favor of a sweeping and controversial new copyright directive that critics say could threaten the internet’s most basic practices around linking and sharing images. But while the broad strokes of the directive are alarming, many of the details are still unclear, and big tech companies seem to be holding their fire for fear of antagonizing regulators.
The strongest initial opposition has come from Wikimedia, the parent organization for Wikipedia and a family of similar information sources. Efforts were made to exempt Wikipedia from Article 13’s filtering provisions, but the broader organization has consistently opposed the directive, writing in June that the measure would have “detrimental effects…
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