CCIA, Mozilla, Others Urge EU Rejection of Copyright Law Revamp Proposal

The Computer & Communications Industry Association, European Digital Media Association, Mozilla and more than 60 others urged the European Council and European Parliament Monday to put work on copyright law revamp legislation “back on the right track” while “there is still time.” Both EU bodies have drawn criticism from CCIA and other U.S.-based entities over the direction of work in EC’s digital single market strategy. Consideration of a possible pan-EU ancillary copyright, seen as a tax on use of news snippets, has been a lightning rod (see 1703080067). The ancillary copyright proposal and language that would require service providers to monitor content uploaded by subscribers to ensure it's not copyright-protected are “backward-looking,” the entities wrote EU officials: The proposal should be rejected in favor of “a more ambitious agenda for positive reform.”