STRASBOURG: The European Parliament votes on Wednesday on a highly complex online copyright law that has split natural political bedfellows and pitted music and news companies against Google and Facebook. But British singer Murray Head was also there, backing efforts to update EU copyright law for the first time in 15 years and ensure creators are paid fairly in a digital world. This put Head on the side of other greats such as Beatles frontman Paul McCartney -- who wrote in support of the draft law -- and of global news organisations, including Agence France-Presse. At the Venice film festival last week, 165 European film-makers, including Mike Leigh and Jacques Audiard, urged EU lawmakers to pass this measure. Unlimited freedomBut Green lawmaker Helga Trupel criticised web freedom activists, saying web giants have shown they are better able to profit from a copyright free-for-all than smaller content creators.

Source: Bangkok Post September 12, 2018 06:11 UTC