YouTube Among ‘Big Losers’ Under New EU Copyright Rules

YouTube LLC and other video-sharing platforms will likely be hardest hit by new European Union copyright rules, intellectual property practitioners told Bloomberg Law.

The Feb. 13 agreement would overhaul EU copyright law by requiring content-sharing platforms to enter into licensing agreements with publishers and artists before posting copyright-protected content, and to create steps for removing potentially infringing content. The European Parliament and EU member countries must approve the agreement, but their votes are considered a formality.

“There are some very big losers, and those very big losers are the likes of YouTube,” Susan Hall, an IP intellectual property partner with ...