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Internet giants including Google will now be forced to enter into licencing agreements with artists, musicians and journalists to display their work for the first time - AFP
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The European Council has given the green light to
implement sweeping changes to existing copyright laws, in an effort to curtail the power of Google, YouTube and Facebook.
The controversial new laws, which were backed by MEPs last month after years of
savage discussion, will compel web organizations to be in charge of policing content on their locales and to give a greater offer of benefits to content makers for showing their work.
Google and Facebook will presently be compelled to go into authorizing concurrences with specialists, performers and columnists to show their work out of the blue, flagging a potential move in the financial matters of the web.
Nineteen European governments voted in favor of the patch up in the European Council on Monday, including the UK, France and Germany.
Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden contradicted the changes, while Belgium, Estonia and Slovenia went without.
The measures, which are relied upon to vigorously affect the main concern of online organizations, were proclaimed by the European Council as an "achievement for the advancement of a powerful and well-working computerized single market".
This choice will probably increase the pressure among Brussels and Silicon Valley, following a progression of multi-billion dollar fines and expense requests against innovation behemoths Google, Amazon and Apple.
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Singular European nations will have two years to embrace the new principles, which are required to produce results from May or June 2021.
The UK Government has just said it intends to present the laws nearby the remainder of Europe even after Brexit.
Faultfinders of the copyright measures have contended that they are bound to hurt littler organizations than enormous tech, and that they could prompt an atmosphere of restriction on the web.
Julia Reda, an MEP for the European Pirate Party who campaigned agains these reforms, said on Twitter: "The entertainment lobby will not stop here, over the next two years, they will push for national implementations that ignore users’ fundamental rights.
"It will be more important than ever for civil society to keep up the pressure in the Member States."