while -- sorry -- shilling.

Oh no. I pointed out that the law has some redeeming points that make it not-quite-as-bad (but still bad).

How dare I do such a thing. Surely I must be paid off by the evil deep state rightsholder consortium.

Or perhaps it's for the fucking reason I repeatedly stated in the comment. Could be both. Who knows.

The parody exception is optional. Chances are that member states won't change current practice, which means some with full exception, in others you have to parody the work you'd be infringing for the excemption to apply -- that is, "winter is coming" is only allowed when you're making fun of GoT, not the new EU copyright regime.

Yes yes. Details. That I intentionally left out as they don't change the fact that you're gonna get ignored by the MEPs if you don't address the amendments while complaining about memes.

Using "winter is coming" in reference to the copyright directive is already copyright infringement in some of the member states, yes. This directive isn't changing that, so this "nuance" of yours is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

Lastly, there's nothing in the adopted text about "fair use". That's a US legal concept, it didn't exist in EU or member state legislation, and evidently still doesn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

I'm aware the exceptions to copyright aren't called "fair use". I'm referring to those exceptions collectively by the term "fair use" as that's what they are commonly called in popular discourse.