The positions were too far: The EU, the Reform of the European copyright moves to the right. This may also offers the four and a half million people who had signed petitions against it.
The news comes as a surprise: Germany and many other countries in the EU Council of Ministers negotiations on a Reform of European copyright stop on the right.
for today’s planned negotiations in the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission have been canceled because of the attitudes among the member States are too different. The Reform is on ice and will probably be negotiated at the earliest, after the European elections.
Controversial Upload Filter
The new law is expected to Online make the platforms liable if their users violate copyrights. The dispute is mainly about how Facebook, YouTube and smaller sites you want your users to control.
Technical AIDS such as a so-called Upload-Filter reject critics. They fear that automatic filters also filter out legitimate content and the Internet as a whole would lose its appeal. The coalition agreement between the CDU and the SPD includes this Filter is mandatory.
