When it relates to copyright focused law, it's pretty damn rare for any political group to get it right. Particularly not any mainstream grouping that is likely subject to lobbying from powerful copyright maximalists.
Yes, but as a general rule, I tend to find that, when the Labour Party and UKIP find themselves on different sides of the debate, generally Labour's view has rather more to be said for it than does that of UKIP.
Similarly, I tend to suspect that when large US companies like Facebook and Google involve themselves in campaigns against EU proposals that affect their business models, their motives are not always completely altruistic.
I'm simply saying I'm reserving judgment. I found what looks like one glaring factual error in the article at the top of the thread within five minutes, almost by accident. There are, in fact, several "fair use" exceptions in existing EU Copyright Law (
Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament , particularly Article 5.3, sections d and k) which are, as far as I can tell from a cursory reading, unaffected by the directive under discussion.
So I suspect there may be other points in the article that are less than completely accurate, possibly because it written from a press-release sent out by someone with an axe to grind (such things do happen).
ETA Normally, when we Brits read that UKIP are upset because the EU is doing something insane (banning bendy bananas, making the UK part of France or whatever) we rightly assume that the story probably isn't accurate. Seems to me that we should apply similar scepticism towards the idea the EU is about to break the internet.
