Policy Observatory
Proposed Copyright Directive – Commissioner confirms it is illegal
At a meeting of the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 19 June, European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip made a statement that was both shocking and shockingly honest. He advertised the content filtering product of the US company Audible Magic as an affordable alternative to Google’s Content ID filtering technology for filtering European citizens’ uploads to the internet.
Country: EU
Domains: IPR
Stakeholder: European Bodies
Tags: Internet, filtering technology, content filtering, Andrus Ansip, JURI, copyright reform