At its core, the EU Copyright Directive is a political battle. “What is really happening here is a political judgement, that Europe wants to have a European copyright approach different from the United States,” says Christopher Beall, a partner at New York-based Fox Rothschild and an expert in copyright law. “The EU is saying: ‘We don’t like the way the Americans handle the internet — and we want to recapture some kind of control over how the internet works.”
Source: What New EU Copyright Law Will Mean for Media, Tech Companies and Users