Just ignore that part, which is procedure, and head straight to the meat of the directive. The controversial article (13) in the EU directive is exactly three

Just ignore that part, which is procedure, and head straight to the meat of the directive. The controversial article (13) in the EU directive is exactly three paragraphs long. Quoting the article's title and first paragraph in full: > Use of protected content by information society service providers storing and giving access to large amounts of works and other subject-matter uploaded by their users > 1. Information society service providers that store and provide to the public access to large amounts of works or other subject-matter uploaded by their users shall, in cooperation with rightholders, take measures to ensure the functioning of agreements concluded with rightholders for the use of their works or other subject-matter or to prevent the availability on their services of works or other subject-matter identified by rightholders through the cooperation with the service providers. Those measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies, shall be appropriate and proportionate. The service providers shall provide rightholders with adequate information on the functioning and the deployment of the measures, as well as, when relevant, adequate reporting on the recognition and use of the works and other subject-matter. As you can see, there might be room to argue that one could remove a word here or there, or perhaps to avoid a euphemism or two, but to me it seems like it's about as plain text as legalese can be. As an aside, and in stark contrast with what a lot of the UK press would have you believe, EU texts tend to be very human readable; particularly when you compare it to texts produced by other legislative bodies. To illustrate, compare the EU directive in question: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... To e.g. the US' CLOUD act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4943/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4943... Or e.g. the UK's Copyright, Designs and Patents act: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/pdfs/ukpga_19880048_en.pdf http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/pdfs/ukpga_19880...