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"The EU's Copyright Directive was passed back in 2019, and the two-year period
for implementing the law in national legislation is almost up. The text's
contradictory requirements to stop infringing material from being posted online
without imposing a general requirement to monitor users, which is not permitted
under EU law, has proved difficult for governments to deal with. France aims to
solve this by ignoring even the limited user protections laid down by the
Directive. Germany has been having a rather fraught debate about how exactly
Article 17, which implicitly requires upload filters, should be implemented.
One good idea to allow users to "pre-flag" as legal the material they upload
was jettisoned. That led to fears that the country's implementation of Article
17 would be as bad as France's. But the final version of the law does attempt
to ensure that automated filters — now admitted as indispensable, despite
earlier assurances they were optional — do not block user uploads that are not
infringing on copyright."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "better than nothing…"
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
