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Polish publishers condemn Facebook after it limits post visibility following change to copyright law


"Facebook has gone to war with the Polish media," says the editor-in-chief of a leading news website.

It added, however, that its decision is an “interim approach pending guidance on the scope of Article 15 from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in relation to a similar implementing law in Italy”. In July this year, hundreds of media outlets jointly protested against the proposed legislation, arguing that it favoured tech giants and threatened Polish businesses. That eventually led parliament to amend the legislation, introducing a mechanism that would allow media firms to seek help from a state agency when negotiating with tech giants such as Google and Facebook over payments for their content.

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