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If you follow Julia Reda's blog (she's MEP), you can get tons of insight into this issue in the EU parliament:

https://juliareda.eu/2018/09/copyright-showdown/



>Rightholders are liable for unjustified takedowns

That's potentially interesting, what does it mean in practice though? How would they be liable? If there was a monetary penalty attached, the record companies would be bankrupt in a day based on the false positives of the youtube content ID algorithm.




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