Sadly law makers aren't technical people, I don't think they have a clue on how to implement such system. Basically only big players can afford the R&D effort.

Sadly law makers aren't technical people, I don't think they have a clue on how to implement such system. Basically only big players can afford the R&D effort. I think EU should build this as a free online service to which you send a query in some compressed & hashed form and the API would reply whether that piece is protected by copyright or not.