This looks like Europe is trying to one-up the DMCA. It is a piece made to order for the content megacorps but does to almost nothing to improve the lot of the actual authors.

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/ (via https://cdt.org/insights/why-the-eu-copyright-directive-is-a-threat-to-fair-use/)

All platforms providing means for the great unwashed to upload content will have to either obtain licenses to any material posted, or implement automatic filters. But:

Should a court ever find their licensing or filtering efforts not fierce enough, sites are directly liable for infringements as if they had committed them themselves.

So anything that is currently covered under fair use is more than likely to go out with the true pirated materials.

Found something interesting in the news?

Reproducing more than “single words or very short extracts” of news stories will require a licence. That will likely cover many of the snippets commonly shown alongside links today in order to give you an idea of what they lead to.

So what I just did here may already be considered in violation of the directive.