{"id":8402,"date":"2018-07-06T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:54:52","slug":"eu-parliament-rejects-controversial-copyright-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/eu-parliament-rejects-controversial-copyright-law\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament rejects controversial copyright law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1200\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/EU.jpg\" alt=\"EU\" width=\"329\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/EU.jpg 389w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/EU-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/>The European Parliament rejected Thursday a highly controversial EU copyright law proposal that has pitted Beatles legend Paul McCartney against internet giants and the creators of Wikipedia.<br \/>\nThe draft law was firmly resisted by major US tech giants as well as advocates of internet freedom, with some campaigners warning it could even spell the end of viral &#8220;memes&#8221; or jokes.<br \/>\n&#8220;Today&#8217;s vote represents a victory for democracy,&#8221; said Siada El Ramly, head of EDiMA, a lobby representing Google, Facebook and other US tech giants.<br \/>\nMembers of European Parliament meeting in the eastern French city of Strasbourg voted 318 against the measure, 278 in favour, with 31 abstentions.<br \/>\nThe vote would have given MEPs the mandate to start negotiations with member states for a finalised law which Austria, holder of the EU&#8217;s six-month rotating presidency, would like finished by the end of the year.<br \/>\nMEPs from France, who had staunchly backed the reform, were furious after the vote.<br \/>\nUS tech giants &#8220;who steal from artists and pay no taxes, have won a battle,&#8221; said MEP Pervenche Beres.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/eu-parliament-rejects-controversial-copyright-law\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament rejected Thursday a highly controversial EU copyright law proposal that has pitted Beatles legend Paul McCartney against internet giants and the creators of Wikipedia. The draft law was firmly resisted by major US tech giants as well as advocates of internet freedom, with some campaigners warning it could even spell the end &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8403,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions\/8403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}