Ask HN: What will HN do if DCDSM's Article 11 passes?

2 pointschicob3 comments

There are many HN submissions that directly link to news articles.

If the European Parliament approves Article 11 of the Copyright Bill, this has direct consequences to HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market#Article_11

HN is not based in the EU, and doesn't publish extracts from articles, so I guess "nothing".

According to that letter[1][2] opposing Article 13,

"In particular, far from only affecting large American Internet platforms (who can well afford the costs of compliance), the burden of Article 13 will fall most heavily on their competitors, including European startups and SMEs",

so I guess something will happen.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ri...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/12/article13letter.pdf

The large "American" platforms all are operating businesses in the EU, and are showing snippets.

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