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Economic interests. EU governments are seeing the majority of digital revenues carted off to american coffers and want a bigger slice to remain in europe to bol
by Joeri 8y ago
Economic interests. EU governments are seeing the majority of digital revenues carted off to american coffers and want a bigger slice to remain in europe to bolster its lagging economy.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoIf this were the case, I think it's much more likely the EU would try and achieve this via changes to tax law for corporations operating within the EU than copyright directives. There's been a lot of press about how little tax the Google's and Starbucks of the world pay in the places they derive the revenue, and some of the highly creative ways they avoid (not evade) taxation. That would seem to point at issues with international taxation agreements rather than copyright.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> it's much more likely the EU would try and achieve this via changes to tax law for corporations operating within the EU than copyright directives Top income earning families in many EU states pay shockingly little in taxes. They're able to structure their gross income such that reportable income is virtually nothing. These families are rich and powerful, and go a long way towards explaining why the EU retains its complex tax code.
- joe463369 8y agoThis directive has been simultaneously criticised for being both a) an outrageous cash grab from the EU, aimed at making money from Google et al and b) an incompetent "poorly drafted" piece of legislation that stops anyone competing with YouTube, hence ensuring their monopoly in the lucrative "boring videos" market.