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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200915/02154245308/copyright-companies-want-memes-that-are-legal-eu-blocked-because-they-now-admit-upload-filters-are-practically-unworkable.shtml>
"The passage of the EU Copyright Directive last year represented one of
the most disgraceful examples of successful lobbying and lying by the
publishing, music, and film industries. In order to convince MEPs to
vote for the highly controversial legislation, copyright companies and
their political allies insisted repeatedly that the upload filters
needed to implement Article 17 (originally Article 13) were optional,
and that user rights would of course be respected online. But as
Techdirt and many others warned at the time, this was untrue, as even
the law's supporters admitted once it had been passed. Now that the EU
member states are starting to implement the Directive, it is clear that
there is no alternative to upload filters, and that freedom of speech
will therefore be massively harmed by the new law. France has even gone
so far as ignore the requirement for the few user protections that the
Copyright Directive graciously provides.
The EU Copyright Directive represents an almost total victory for
copyright maximalists, and a huge defeat for ordinary users of the
Internet in the EU. But if there is one thing that we can be sure of,
it's that the copyright industries are never satisfied. Despite the
massive gains already enshrined in the Directive, a group of industry
organizations from the world of publishing, music, cinema and
broadcasting have written to the EU Commissioner responsible for the
Internal Market, Thierry Breton, expressing their "serious concerns
regarding the European Commission's consultation on its proposed
guidance on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright
in the Digital Single Market ("the Directive")." The industry groups are
worried that implementation of the EU Copyright Directive will provide
them with too
little protection"
Via Glyn Moody.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
