> The only thing this will do is entrench massive players like Google and Facebook who already have these systems in place. Not exactly. Small and micro platfo

> The only thing this will do is entrench massive players like Google and Facebook who already have these systems in place. Not exactly. Small and micro platforms are excluded from directive’s scope. From legislation: In particular, small and micro enterprises as defined in Title I of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, should be expected to be subject to less burdensome obligations than larger service providers. Therefore, taking into account the state of the art and the availability of technologies and their costs, in specific cases it may not be proportionate to expect small and micro enterprises to apply preventive measures and that therefore in such cases these enterprises should only be expected to expeditiously remove specific unauthorised works and other subject matter upon notification by rightholders As to what small is, Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC Article 2.2 states: Within the SME category, a small enterprise is defined as an enterprise which employs fewer than 50 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 10 million