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EU Agrees Stricter Copyright Rules for Online Content
February 20, 2019
The Financial Express reports that EU institutions have reached a deal on copyright legislation that will impose new liability on internet companies for hosting unlicensed content uploaded by users on their platforms.
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CoE Committee Calls for Public Media Financing
February 20, 2019
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers has called on CoE members to “ensure the financial sustainability of quality journalism,” including through such means as government financial support, while also avoiding constraints on the media’s “editorial and operational independence.”
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ECtHR: Conviction of Romanian Pastors Violated Rights
February 20, 2019
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Romania had violated the rights to religious freedom of two pastors the country’s courts had convicted of “unlawful exercise of pastoral duties” for conducting religious services without approval from their respective churches.
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UK Parliament Votes Against May’s Brexit Strategy
February 15, 2019
The UK Parliament has voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy to seek concessions from EU negotiators on the UK-EU withdrawal deal, as members of the euroskeptic European Research Group abstained from the vote due to the inclusion of a provision aiming to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
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EU Law Requires Internet Platforms to Pay for Content
February 15, 2019
Bloomberg reports that EU institutions have agreed to a new copyright law that will require online platforms to pay creators of protected content that appears on their websites, including long fragments of news articles appearing as previews in search results, or remove it.
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