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This is not the motivation of players pushing for this law. They don't care about small players and instead want to push revenue for their content. There is no other elaborate explanation about a "modern copyright".

The law is specifically for big media publishers with huge legal support to increase bycatch IP enforcement in a broad manner.

It will improve absolutely nothing and is in general a bad law that has a huge potential to seriously hurt innovative content creators.

And I don't think that sticking it to fly-by-night operations is a socially desired outcome. That is heavily in opinion-land and I simply disagree.




>seriously hurt innovative content creators

Any "innovative content creator" that uses large chunks of other people's content, is by definition not innovative and not a creator.

As far as it goes... EU laws typically follow the rules that require express permission with the right to take away that permission.

If you want Google to index you, you are free to put up an explicit permission.




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