A new EU law will 'ban memes', warn campaigners
The EU Copyright Directive intends to protect the intellectual property rights of people who upload their material to the internet.
However, campaigners are warning the law will require "all content uploaded to the internet to be monitored and potentially deleted if a likeness to existing copyright is protected".
The campaign against a particular provision of the directive, Article 13, warns that online platforms would be economically damaged if they were forced to comply with its expensive obligations.
The law would "destroy the internet as we know it" warn the campaigners, who add it would "allow big companies to control what we see and do online".
Comment: More notably, there is a lot of truth in memes - something that those controlling the narrative would rather see just go away. But it's unlikely these copyright laws will do much to actually stop that as the majority of it should fall under "fair use". Perhaps what's more concerning: Copyright trolls censor internet content with false claims of infringement