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Hey everybody. So as you all saw, Article 13 passed on September 12. We are of course disappointed by that result. It’s too early to say what the next steps are for FANDOM. It will likely take more than a year for us to learn what this means in practice.

But if you're curious about the details of the process, here’s the basics of what will happen next:


 * 1) Now that the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have adopted this position, the European Union will enter into what’s known as trilogue where those two bodies come together under the mediation of the European Commission to formalize the decision with a final law. It’s possible to still stop this from passing during that process. It is very unlikely that this will happen, however. Trilogue is expected to conclude in January 2019.
 * 2) After trilogue negotiations, it will take some time for the practical implications and processes for Article 13 compliance to be decided. This is very similar to the recent GDPR enaction. It took about 2 years for GDPR to come into effect due to needing to hammer out the specifics.
 * 3) We don’t expect to know anything about how this will impact FANDOM or what we will need to do to comply until well into 2019, if not later. This is similar to how it was only a short period of time prior to the enactment of GDPR that we knew exactly what we needed to do in order to comply.

Long story short, at the moment the next steps outside of the political process are not yet clear. We will keep you updated as we learn more. Stay tuned.