The Copyright Directive was backed by 348 MEPs, with 278 against.
The laws on copyright were last amended in 2001.It is now up to member states to approve the decision. If they do, they will have two years to implement it once it is officially published.Article 11 states that search engines and news aggregate platforms should pay to use links from news websites.
Article 13 does not include cloud storage services and there are already existing exemptions, including parody. "It's about making sure that ordinary people can upload videos and music to platforms like YouTube without being held liable for copyright - that responsibility will henceforth be transferred to the platforms," he said.
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