{"id":8732,"date":"2017-01-21T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/referencement-pme.ca\/tax-hyperlinks-a-european-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:52:45","slug":"tax-hyperlinks-a-european-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/referencement-pme.ca\/en\/tax-hyperlinks-a-european-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax hyperlinks! A European bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, it’s not the first of April, a European directive attacks freedom of information and creation with a bill that would change copyright<\/p>\n

… And create a specific copyright for the hyperlink!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Going against the founding principle of the Web \u2014 the sharing of information \u2014 this directive would disrupt the uses of the Web and drastically modify SEO.<\/p>\n

\"Tax<\/p>\n

Two main axes in the project under discussion<\/p>\n

Create a copyright on links:<\/h2>\n

The principle: when you make a link to a press site (both from a website and a simple share on social networks), you will have to pay a copyright for the medium pointed to.<\/p>\n

Charge Google News<\/h3>\n

It is the desire of the public authorities to regulate and tax Google news<\/strong>, which is at the origin of this bill, but the project presented<\/a> is so vague that it can be applied to any type of link and to the entire Web.<\/p>\n

The press<\/strong> , complaining that their content is aggregated by the ” Google News engine”,<\/strong> has suggested that MEPs find a way to tax the search engine giant in this way<\/p>\n

SEO nonsense<\/h2>\n

The principle of charging for a link to free content that has already been published on the Web does not make sense.<\/p>\n

Rather than wanting to tax or ban it, I tend to encourage it because I think external links bring<\/p>\n