UK to discontinue EU Copyright Directive after Brexit
Conservative UK prime minister Boris Johnson's administration has announced that after the country officially leaves the European Union, they will no longer be implementing the EU Copyright Directive, which requires big tech firms to remove copyrighted content uploaded to their websites, applying a heavy penalty should they fail to do so.
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