New EU digital copyright rules

New EU digital copyright rules

- Internet platforms face incentives to pay for artists' and journalists' work used
- Some uploaded material, such as memes or GIFs, can be shared freely
- Hyperlinks to news articles, accompanied by 'individual words or very short extracts' can be shared freely
- Mandatory exceptions to copyright are instated for the purposes of text and data mining, online teaching activities and dissemination of works that have stopped being commercialised.