The claim: "Journalists and online publications will have more money to keep on financing quality research and news. Despite what you might read, the Copyright

The claim: "Journalists and online publications will have more money to keep on financing quality research and news. Despite what you might read, the Copyright directive supports a free press and could enable journalists to get some money when their articles are shared online. Good journalism costs money and without a free press there is no democracy." The reality: "New copyright directive makes a mockery of journalists' authors' rights" (International Federation of Journalists, https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/authors-rights/article/new-copyright-directive-makes-a-mockery-of-journalists-authors-rights.html https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/author...)