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Photo illustration Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple with the other giants of the net are trying to put pressure on European copyrights. AFP / Lionel Bonaventure

Meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, MEPs will vote Tuesday, March 26, on the European reform of copyright, the hour of truth for a text negotiated for three years. The new text aims to adapt the digital era to European copyright law dating back to 2001 - a time when YouTube, owned by Google, did not exist yet.

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Never before has a text generated such a lobbying campaign: more than six million emails sent to MPs in just two weeks. Unheard of, as Jean-Marie Cavada, a French Liberal MEP, who led the negotiations for his group, points out.

" In 15 years of tenure, I have never seen that ," he says. A campaign of influence, a campaign of extravagant money spending by the Gafa, lies and corruption. It must be said that there is a good reason: European artistic creation, its economic weight, is 536 billion euros each year. So I understand that they behave like Pac-Man terrorists, that they want to eat that money and they do not want to pay. "

Make internet platforms responsible for hosted content

Freedom advocates on the internet, allied for the occasion to major online platforms, YouTube, Google and others, call for a vote against the directive, against the creation of a "neighboring right" for newspaper publishers that will allow the media to be better compensated for the reuse of their online production.

Against Article 13, now Article 17. Its purpose: make Internet platforms responsible for the content they host. Like any broadcaster, they should sign license agreements with rights holders.

►To read: European copyright against GAFA