The European Parliament has adopted its negotiating position on the Copyright Directive, which was originally proposed by the European Commission in September 2016. The Parliament had voted against the text in July 2018, after which the proposal has been changed due to the controversy it had sparked. The new version waters down measures requiring to monitor the effectiveness of the agreements with right holders (i.e. implementing filters to automatically delete content violating copyright). Another controversial part of the rules relates to ways of remunerating news organisations; the new version of the text excludes more explicitly the sharing of hyperlinks to content. The trialogue negotiations between EC, Parliament, and Council will now begin. The Commission aims to agree on all pending Digital Single Market proposals by the end of 2018.
