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The European Parliament will vote on Wednesday (Thursday, Australian time) to either pass or reject copyright guidelines that will make the online world a much fairer place.

The two biggest parasites in the digital world, Facebook and Google, have offered a sop to online publishers: we will allow the free articles of yours, that we exploit to make our money, offer a means of subscribing to your publications.

Google and Facebook together accounted for 99% of the online advertising industry's growth last year, according to the Canadian research firm Pivotal Research.