The European Commission have shown themselves incapable of listening, recent leak shows they intend to push ahead with link tax and ignore public consultation process.
Today Statewatch released a leaked copy of the European Commission’s Impact Assessmenton copyright reform: their statement of intent and justification for the proposed new copyright rules we’ve been anticipating the last two years.
Here’s the shocker: In this document the Commission clearly states that they will introduce an ancillary copyright for press publishers, giving them the ability to levy a fee on links with accompanying short snippets of text. aka, the link tax.