Digging Deeper: Is Europe going to lose its memes?

Today, we’re discussing Article 13, a piece of legislation that was passed by the European Union on 26 March, 2019. In a nutshell, Article 13 forces social media platforms, like Facebook, Google and YouTube, to have responsibility over unlicensed user-uploaded copyrighted material. In other words, people are up in arms that memes are under threat. And you know how the internet gets when you take away its memes.

Sure, this is happening in far away European Union. But in the global family that is the internet, we show up for each other, don’t we? Remember net neutrality? Which is why this spotlight on Article 13. My name is Rakesh Sharma, and you are listening to Digging Deeper with Moneycontrol.