https://www.newscientist.com/article/2172373-why-memes-are-the-latest-casualty-in-eus-war-on-silicon-valley/

The Copyright Directive is the first update to the EU’s media sharing rules in 17 years, and the vast majority of changes are simple technical fixes. However, two amendments are attracting particular ire.

Article 11 proposes a “link tax” that would force anyone using even small snippets of published text to obtain a licence from the publisher first, while Article 13 would make platforms responsible for installing automated content filters to ensure that material uploaded by their users does not infringe copyright.