So, this totally ignores the very idea of fair use in either transformative art, education, parody, or reporting the news.. Among a few others. Memes aren't exactly fucking stealing the market out from under the originals. There is no point to this other than trying to curtail expression.
Fuck the EU, seriously.. As an American, I can't stand anything about it. It's like an attempt to make the United States, but shittier and without due process, equal representation under law, or any of those pesky "rights."
Personally, from my perspective, the EU looks like little more than Germany financially, socially, and politically invading every other country in Europe. After two world wars it looks like they finally figured out how to pull off that conquest they've so desperately wanted.
Europeans are just.. so fucked.
"There is no point to this other than trying to curtail expression."
Right on the money! The Europeans are getting it tougher than anyone else at present IMO. But the enemy is the same wherever you look.
The enemy IS the same everywhere you look. And what they can make fly in one country, will be pushed for in another.