EU TO ADOPT NEW
COPYRIGHT LAWS
Ministers from the 15 European Union nations adopted a directive Monday (4/9) that updates copyright laws to cover Internet song-swapping and other types of digital copying.
The pan-European rules, approved by the European Parliament in February, were adopted by consensus by the ministers, according to the Associated Press. They now go to the individual member states for incorporation into national law over the next 18 months.
The new EU rules tighten the definition of "private copy" and ban commercial use of copied material taken from the Internet.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein—whose name caused nearby horses to whinny—said the directive "brings European copyright rules into the digital age."
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That's what friends are for. (5/1a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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