Poland has submitted a complaint to the European Union's top court against copyright rules adopted by the bloc in April to protect Europe's creative industries, which Warsaw says may result in preventive censorship.
Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the EU's $1 trillion creative industries.
Poland has said the overhaul was a step backwards, arguing that the filter requirement could lay the foundation for censorship.
Poland's foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz said that the complaint mainly concerns violation of the right of freedom of speech which is guaranteed in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
"We are tackling this issue with an absolute conviction that we are representing the best interest of Polish and all EU citizens," said minister Czaputowicz.
European affairs minister Konrad Szymański told Polish Press Agency that Poland "does not question the necessity of copyrights protection, as long as it doesn't curb freedom of speech".
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters
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