Comment Re:Promoting Progress of Science and useful Arts? (Score 1) 137
2. To maximize the outflow of cash from the local economy into foreign wallets.
A good example would be: Directive 2011/77/EU on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights.
As EDRi put it:
In short, this is a piece of European legislation which is almost impressively bad. It achieves the worst of all available outcomes, disadvantaging young performers, placing a barrier between citizens and their culture and producing a net loss of money from the EU to the US.