Package of copyright reforms by three hundred forty eight votes to two hundred seventy four. member states miss now formally approved the legislation before it can take effect. for both sides of this issue and to do that to my right is called aspen from our social media desk into my far right is my colleague and a musician as well warner paul and gentlemen it s good to have you here at the big desk that we start here with the musician so if you consider what was passed today then that would imply that for years you have been shortchanged by these online platforms and indeed i and many others. these companies like you to google facebook they ve been using a lot of content of creative content and really been bursting us properly and i mean that. they ve. been paying a lot less and even competitors like spotify you know i mean it s really quite
Although others say the protests were part of a managed campaign by big corporations like google. with european elections just weeks away the issue of copyright on the internet has become intensely controversial. opponents of the reform say that change means content will be checked by also messy filters rather than human being. what the politicians expect algorithms to be able to do is to tell the difference between a copyright infringement and satire as long as artificial intelligence does not develop a sense of humor this is something that s going to remain impossible i think we should not trust the block black box of an algorithm to tell us what we can and cannot post online. in the end the strasberg parliament voted in favor of the full package of copyright reforms by three hundred forty eight votes to two hundred seventy four. you member states miss now formally approved the legislation before