Article 15: 'link tax'

Exceptions: 

• Fortunately, this does not mean you can't link to an article anymore. You're even allowed to do more than that: you may extend the link with a few words or a 'snippet' (a text that the author of the content provides to summarise his article). But the exact number of words you can add still has to be determined.
• Important: this copyright protection does not apply to the facts specified in the publication. 
• Research institutes and universities may collect content via datamining for data analysis and the development of artificial intelligence, for example. Educational institutions and European museums may also, as before, continue to freely use copyright protected content, for example, to compile online lessons.
• Periodic publications, published for scientific or academic purposes, do not fall under this copyright restriction.
• You may still use a quote from a press publication, for example to criticise the statement.

Conclusion:

This chiefly benefits European press publishers. And that's a good thing, because it stimulates independent news collection in member states because internet platforms will have to compensate them from now. The amount of the compensation still has to be negotiated. 

Article 15 also contains a number of amendments to the existing law. To start with, copyrights on press publications will have an expiry date: 20 years after publication of the press release. This provision does not apply to what was published before the law came into force. Libraries will also be allowed to publish works online that are no longer available for purchase. And museums no longer have copyright on photographs of centuries' old paintings.

It remains to be seen whether this provision will not have a boomerang effect on newspaper sites. The past has shown that referrals by Google and Google News generate a lot of traffic. Will this traffic decrease when the user's curiosity is no longer stimulated by the longer extracts and he has to settle for a short summary plus URL?