parliamentarians took the former view and voted yes to require tech titans like google you tube and facebook to scan uploaded content for copyright violations and compensate content providers for using their work could the scanning process wind up blocking not only copyright infringement the creativity and open exchange that prospect drove hundreds of thousands of european internet users to the streets in protest copyright cashing in on the internet that s our topic here our cast s greystone is a brylin based freelance author who often writes about tech and she says it is a perilous time for content creators but europe caps police the entire internet. alan posner is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper de baets he says europe is forcing the internet giants to respect intellectual property and pay for it and that s good news for. everyone except google. and it s
took the former view and voted yes to require tech titans like google you tube and facebook to scan uploaded content for copyright violations and compensate content providers for using their work could the scabbing process wind up blocking not only copyright infringement but creativity and open exchange that prospect drove hundreds of thousands of european internet users to the streets in protest copyright cashing in on the internet that s our topic here our cast s grace is a berlin based freelance author who often writes about tech and she says it is a perilous time for content creators but europe caps police the entire internet. alan posner is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper divis he says europe is forcing the internet giants to respect intellectual property and pay for it and that s good news for everyone except google. and it s
you stand by for me, mark. heather, i want you to talk about the potential criminal charges and walk us through the legal steps at play. president-elect obama wouldn t be criminal charges, but certainly there could be civil charges against the rolling stone and the author herself. i understand that she was a freelance author. but rolling stone would be responsible not only for her as an agent, but also because they should have done more. it would be reasonable to do more to check on this story. when they came out with their statement, they said we trusted her. i think mark would probably agree that that is not a reasonable standard for a publication to simply trust a source without checking on it. based on that, the fraternity as a whole, the fraternity itself would certainly have a claim for libel against rolling stone for monetary damages they suffered as a result of this reputation damage. stand by for me, heather. what i want to share with the audience now, there is an apology