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EU Passes Controversial Copyright Law With 'Link Taxes'
• https://motherboard.vice.com, by Daniel OberhausThe European Parliament approved the controversial Copyright Directive, which would require publishers to pay a "link tax" for sharing anything more than "insubstantial" portions of other publishers' content.
Under the new law, passed on Wednesday with a vote of 438 to 226, any website that allows users to upload content must also implement a filter that checks this content against a database of copyrighted materials.