https://www.cnet.com/news/article-13-europes-hotly-debated-eu-copyright-law-explained/ > The European Union is trying to pass a hotly debated new law on copyright. The European Copyright Directive has been two years in the making, and on June 20, the European Parliament's legal affairs committee voted to approve the draft legislation. > The vote happened less than a month after Europe's last big piece of internet-related legislation -- the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) -- kicked in.