Have you heard that all of the opposition to the EU Copyright Directive and its hugely problematic Articles 11 and 13 is really being driven by Google lobbying? Most of you probably realized this was nonsense, but it now turns out that not only was the lobbying almost entirely dominated by the legacy copyright players, but a key plank of their lobbying campaign was to falsely allege that all opposition was just Google.
If you've been paying attention at all to the crazy fights over
the
EU Copyright Directive, you may have heard some claims
being passed around that it's somehow "Google" lobbying heavily
against the bill. Indeed, all over Twitter, that's the talking
point from tons of EU Copyright Directive supporters. After the
EU Parliament put the brakes on the bill back in July, I even
saw a former RIAA exec (who has since blocked me on Twitter, so
I can't show it to you) tweet that this was a clear perversion
of the "will of the people" by Google's corporate lobbying. Of
course, it's hilarious for that to come from an ex-RIAA
exec, who was heavily involved over the past 3 decades in
pushing through all sorts of protectionist, anti-public,
anti-musician legislation and trade agreements.
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