EU lawmakers back copyright reforms targeting Google, Facebook

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EU lawmakers back copyright reforms targeting Google, Facebook

ISP upload filtering laws get up.

EU lawmakers have endorsed an overhaul of the bloc's two-decade old copyright rules, which will force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for use of news snippets and make them filter out protected content. The European Parliament backed the reforms by 348 votes to 274 on Tuesday after a ...

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