How the EU's imaginary "value gap" would kill user-generated content online

I did not watch the video, but is this about the idiotic directive of the idiot Oettinger?

If so I have some good news: The EP Committee on Legal Affairs discussed the proposal and Therese Comodini Cachia, reporting member for the submission, announced that she will try to kick out a few of the more stupid ideas, like the reversal of evidence.

About a week ago the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection discussed the proposal and the opinion is a good one - they more or less removed everything about the special rights for publishers forcing search engines and similar to buy a licence (Spain tried this with a local law. effect: Google News Spain closed. Germany tried this with a local law. effect: all publishers gave Google News a free-of-cost licence).

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