> Concerns focus on a provision that would let publishers claim royalties for the use of snippets of information, such as tables or headlines. This was included with the aim of enabling news publishers to secure revenue from social-media platforms such as Facebook and Google. But a proposal added by a European Parliament committee would mean that the provision also applies to academic publications.

The EU repeatedly shoots itself in the foot with badly-written laws—aimed at Facebook and Google—landing on itself. Revenue thresholds, for GDPR or this, only above which these requirements activate, are a simple fix. No idea why the European bureaucracy repeatedly opposes such thresholds.