Policy Building Blocks: What Do We Mean When We Talk About Liability

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In tech policy, as with any policy, we often talk about liability. Basically, should X liable to Y, why, and with what consequence? Figuring out good policy is often a matter of figuring out how those questions should be answered. Because sometimes it might be good for society if X could be held liable for […]

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Why The Snippet Tax In The EU Copyright Directive Is Pointless And Doomed To Fail

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The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market contains two spectacularly bad ideas. One is the upload filter of Article 17, which will wreak havoc not just on creativity in the EU, but also on freedom of speech there, as algorithms block perfectly legal material. The other concerns the snippet tax of Article 15, more […]

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