. The EU announced on Tuesday that memes, along with gifs, will be shielded from the directive as they will fall under provisions for"quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody or pastiche."Reddit/YamezjThe so-called"link tax" will automatically give news publishers the right to negotiate a license with news aggregators, such as Google.
It also specifically stipulates that individual journalists or"authors" are entitled to an"appropriate share" of the money their publication gets from its licensing agreement with services like Google., making sure that hyperlinks and sharing"snippets" from news articles are exempt from Article 15.following the vote on Tuesday, and indicated it would keep up lobbying efforts as the laws progress through European Parliament.
"We look forward to working with policy makers, publishers, creators and rights holders as EU member states move to implement these new rules,"Although the directive has been voted through on Tuesday, it's still a way off implementation. It still needs to be ratified by the EU Council, which an EU spokesman told Business Insider is likely to happen in early April.
Once that's done, it will be up to EU member states whether they want to adopt the new laws. If they decide to do so, they will have two years to implement them. Some opposing MEPs have already begun the fight to reject the legislation in their home countries, such as
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