Beef Of The Week #410: The tech lobby v Article 13

Forget petty pop star squabbles, the real beefing in the world of music this week has been happening in Brussels where the tech lobby has been mounting a massive campaign to scupper the music industry’s hopes of reforming the copyright safe harbour. Indeed, so proactive has that lobby become with its late-in-the-day mantras of “no more cat memes” and “they’re going to fuck up the internet”, the music community has been put on defcon one as the draft new copyright directive goes to the European Parliament for a full vote.

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