EFF's Letter to the EU's Copyright Directive Negotiators

Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation sent the note below to every member of the EU bodies negotiating the final draft of the new Copyright Directive in the "trilogue" meetings. The note details our grave misgivings about the structural inadequacies and potential for abuse in the late-added and highly controversial Articles 11 and 13, which require paid licenses for links to news-sites (Article 11) and censoring public communications if they match entries in a crowdsourced database of copyrighted works.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/effs-letter-eus-copyright-directive-negotiators?source=Snapzu