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The EU's Article 13 has passed, and the greatest asset to human liberty has been seized by the European Commission, supported by your nominated representatives.
Anyone who owns a "popular" website or online platform (note that "popular" has not been defined) will be responsible for all content that users upload - text, images, audio, and video alike. ISPs and platform owners alike will be required to use "effective content recognition technologies", which could cost companies that don't already do this in the order of millions. Big names like Tim Berners-Lee have spoken out about it, saying it will harm freedom of speech and expression, and stifle competition of the largest companies, helping them maintain their monopolies.
Someone else falsely claims copyright over your own original content? You won't be allowed to post it online - you'll have to take them to court (good luck with that if you're poor like me) just to be able to share your own work. Think that's fine? Now imagine a political candidate. Someone destroys them in an interview, clearly rebuffing all of their points. What do they do? Simply claim ownership of copyright over the interview - sure, the courts will sort it out eventually but in the meantime all dissenting material is silently removed, and it's smooth sailing through the election. Good job we have fair and impartial media, right? Oh, never mind.
Fair use? Nobody needs that, right? This is the end of memes, the end of remixes, and the end of mashups. Oh, you made a political video that was all well and good, but you were wearing Nike trainers and Nike disagreed with your politics? Guess that video's gone. You filmed your daughter's birthday party and she had a Peppa Pig balloon? Let's hope the algorithms don't detect it...
Here's an open letter on the issue (albeit outdated now that the article has passed), and saveyourinternet.eu is good for further reading.
Don't let this be the end of the free internet.
Anyone who owns a "popular" website or online platform (note that "popular" has not been defined) will be responsible for all content that users upload - text, images, audio, and video alike. ISPs and platform owners alike will be required to use "effective content recognition technologies", which could cost companies that don't already do this in the order of millions. Big names like Tim Berners-Lee have spoken out about it, saying it will harm freedom of speech and expression, and stifle competition of the largest companies, helping them maintain their monopolies.
Someone else falsely claims copyright over your own original content? You won't be allowed to post it online - you'll have to take them to court (good luck with that if you're poor like me) just to be able to share your own work. Think that's fine? Now imagine a political candidate. Someone destroys them in an interview, clearly rebuffing all of their points. What do they do? Simply claim ownership of copyright over the interview - sure, the courts will sort it out eventually but in the meantime all dissenting material is silently removed, and it's smooth sailing through the election. Good job we have fair and impartial media, right? Oh, never mind.
Fair use? Nobody needs that, right? This is the end of memes, the end of remixes, and the end of mashups. Oh, you made a political video that was all well and good, but you were wearing Nike trainers and Nike disagreed with your politics? Guess that video's gone. You filmed your daughter's birthday party and she had a Peppa Pig balloon? Let's hope the algorithms don't detect it...
Here's an open letter on the issue (albeit outdated now that the article has passed), and saveyourinternet.eu is good for further reading.
Don't let this be the end of the free internet.
