What you need to know about Europe’s new copyright law
|London (CNN Business)Europe has approved new copyright laws that will change the internet. The problem is that nobody knows exactly how.
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved an overhaul of the bloc’s copyright laws that makes platforms like Google’s (GOOGL) YouTube responsible for infringements committed by their users.
EU lawmakers said their goal was to make the internet less of a “wild west,” where musicians, publishers and other content creators were not fairly compensated for work that was shared online.