Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive Disaster

In a stunning rejection of the will five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2019/03/26/european-parliament-votes-yes-on-controversial-copyright-reform/

29 Comments

  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Mikä kaikki muuttuu uudessa tekijänoikeusdirektiivissä?
    https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10707993

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    The EU seems to love passing legislation which makes the Internet poorer for everyone. Time to make some noise about this.

    European Parliament votes ‘yes’ on controversial Copyright Reform
    https://thenextweb.com/eu/2019/03/26/european-parliament-votes-yes-on-controversial-copyright-reform/

    The EU Parliament just approved the controversial Copyright Reform, despite public protests and loud opposition from platforms such as GitHub, Google, Reddit and Wikipedia.

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  3. Tomi Engdahl says:

    James Vincent / The Verge:
    European Parliament approves the Copyright Directive, a controversial law that includes Article 11, dubbed the “link tax”, and Article 13, the “upload filter” — Article 11 and Article 13 both approved by European politicians — The European Union has given …

    Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
    https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18280726/europe-copyright-directive

    The much-criticized ‘upload filter’ and ‘link tax’ will soon become law in EU nations

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  4. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Karl Bode / Motherboard:
    The EU passed the Copyright Directive, which will be costly to implement and likely ineffective, despite protests and compelling criticism of its central tenets

    EU Ignores the Public, Passes Internet-Wrecking Copyright Proposal
    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvyqkp/eu-ignores-the-public-passes-internet-wrecking-copyright-proposal

    Upload filters and link taxes may be well intentioned, but critics say they’re going to seriously screw up the open internet.

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  5. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
    https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18280726/europe-copyright-directive

    The much-criticized ‘upload filter’ and ‘link tax’ will soon become law in EU nations

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  6. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Casey Newton / The Verge:
    The EU’s Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, has the potential to further fracture the open web based on location — How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web — It’s strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn’t generally need a passport to travel.

    Europe is splitting the internet into three
    How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web
    https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283541/european-union-copyright-directive-internet-article-13

    It’s strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn’t generally need a passport to travel.

    The idea of making citizens carry documents to promote border security, he said, dates only to the aftermath of World War I.

    The online world is much younger than the offline one, and so it shouldn’t surprise us that it is generally a much freer place to travel.

    Reading today’s news about the European Union’s passage of the Copyright Directive, though, I wondered whether we would all soon need passports as we travel around the web. The internet had previously been divided into two: the open web, which most of the world could access; and the authoritarian web of countries like China, which is parceled out stingily and heavily monitored.

    As of today, though, the web no longer feels truly worldwide. Instead we now have the American internet, the authoritarian internet, and the European internet.

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  7. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Electrical Safety Awareness for Non-Electrical Workers
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggJo6m8NZtA

    When your team works in electrical environments, they need to have full knowledge of safety rules. This is vital, not only for workers but also for the safety of employees supervised.

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  8. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Electrical Work Safety Awareness Training
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhtQGQbuq6w

    Electrical safety is a very tricky but important factor in safety training for corporations. Some of the mishaps are fatalistic in nature and yet it is one of the most neglected hazardous work area. With various safety work procedures in place, it continues to be one of the highest cause of accidents / fatalities. ASK EHS can create exact accident / incident scenarios of electrical work hazards using actual scenes and models.

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  9. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Casey Newton / The Verge:
    The EU’s Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, has the potential to further fracture the open web based on location

    Europe is splitting the internet into three
    How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web
    https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283541/european-union-copyright-directive-internet-article-13

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  10. Tomi Engdahl says:

    EU Copyright Directive Adopted: The Fight for Libraries and Freedom of Speech Passes to the National Level
    https://www.ifla.org/node/92063

    Putting Fear before Free Speech
    The most high profile parts of the Directive aimed to deal with the perceived dominance of major internet platforms.

    Article 11 (15 after renumbering) underlines that copyright can exist even in short ‘snippets’ of text from newspapers or other news sources. This affects, in particular, those used on news aggregators to offer readers enough information to know whether to click down or not.

    Article 13 (17 after renumbering) forces all by the youngest platforms to implement proactive filtering of content uploaded by users in order to prevent infringing material from appearing online.

    While proclaiming to protect freedom of speech, the well-documented flaws of automatic filters inevitably means that legitimate free expression is at risk.

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  11. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Can the EU Survive Its Own Censorship?
    https://tomluongo.me/2019/03/27/can-the-eu-survive-its-own-censorship/

    new Copyright Directive passed the European Parliament ensuring the way we use the Internet will change in the future.

    And not for the better.

    The new Copyright Directive is designed to erect barriers-to-entry and shut down opposition speech by outsourcing the enforcement to the platforms hosting the material.

    Fake Property, False Choices
    This is why the music and film industry want their IP protected from ‘fair use’ policies. They see the plummeting margins and want to continue charging on a per use/listen/view basis things they retain the copyright to far beyond the public’s willingness to pay them.

    It’s too expensive for these companies to go after us individually. That doesn’t work except in very limited ways.

    IP Deflation

    Ninety five percent of the news you read is a restatement of a government or corporate press release. If you think someone can’t reprint government or corporate press releases for less than €100 a head you are crazy.

    Just like it is in retail sales. Amazon is killing local retailers because easily cross-shopped items are simply more efficiently delivered without a brick and mortar storefront.

    The Last War
    So the EU just gave these sclerotic, dying industries everything they’ve ever wanted. But, in the long run, it will be their undoing as it will incentivize an entire generation of citizen journalists to fill in the niches and do primary research.

    Moreover, it will be unenforceable at any practical level, as Dave Cullen points out. The EU will itself cause a cratering of traffic to and from its IP ranges.

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  12. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Press Release: Censorship machine takes over EU’s internet
    https://edri.org/censorship-machine-takes-over-eu-internet/?fbclid=IwAR3bhpB12_POyqXF3VroDKP5rt4Z7IQqRBT4PIv1iXBMPKCTHDmMcR3U-AI

    Today, on 26 March, the European Parliament voted in favour of adopting controversial upload filters (Article 13/17) as part of the copyright Directive. This vote comes after what was an intense campaign for human rights activists, with millions of signatures, calls, tweets and emails from concerned individuals, as well as Europe-wide protests.

    Article 13 of the copyright Directive contains a change of internet hosting services’ responsibility that will necessarily lead to the implementation of upload filters on a vast number of internet platforms. With dangerous potential for automatised censorship mechanisms, online content filtering could be the end of the internet as we know it.

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  13. Tomi Engdahl says:

    GDPR incompatibility – the blind spot of the copyright debate
    https://edri.org/gdpr-incompatibility-blind-spot-of-copyright-debate/

    Former Article 13, which became Article 17 in the text voted by the European Parliament on 26 March, created the greatest controversy between stakeholders arguing about the so-called “value gap” in the creative sectors, upload filters, and a new platform liability regime, among others issues. However, few observers have analysed the impact of Article 13/17 on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On 23 March, Dr. Malte Engeler, a German judge, published an article explaining why the filtering technology required by the Copyright Directive might be incompatible with European data protection rules.

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  14. Tomi Engdahl says:

    EU Copyright Directive Adopted: The Fight for Libraries and Freedom of Speech Passes to the National Level
    https://www.ifla.org/node/92063

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  15. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Facebook sold out the internet, secretly lobbied IN FAVOUR of upload filters
    https://boingboing.net/2019/01/24/quisling-zuckermonsters.html

    Though Facebook’s lobbying associations spent the whole debate over the EU Copyright Directive arguing (correctly) that algorithmic filters to catch copyright infringement would end up blocking mountains of legitimate speech (while still letting through mountains of infringement), Facebook secretly told the EU Commission that it used filters all the time, had utmost confidence in them, and couldn’t see any problems with their use.

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  16. Tomi Engdahl says:

    How this CRAZY copyright policy impacts me
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwG0bQ7WC3c

    Flagged 15x in 1 hour & someone stole my song… Being a YouTuber and how it’s impossible to work with the current copyright policy.
    On how I got duped twice and discussing a possible solution.

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  17. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Chris O’Brien / VentureBeat:
    EU gives final approval to the new Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, after 19 of the 28 member countries voted in favor

    EU countries give final approval to copyright reform aimed at Google and Facebook
    https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/15/eu-countries-give-final-approval-to-copyright-reform-aimed-at-google-and-facebook/

    The European Union has officially approved a controversial and sweeping reform of its copyright rules to protect content creators but that includes provisions critics and tech giants have argued will significantly reduce free speech online.

    The rules were passed by the European Parliament last month, but still needed the final approval of member governments to go into effect.

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  18. Tomi Engdahl says:

    EU Parliament Takes Up Its Next Attempt To Wipe Out An Open Internet: Terrorist Content Regulation Vote On Wednesday
    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190415/17130042019/eu-parliament-takes-up-next-attempt-to-wipe-out-open-internet-terrorist-content-regulation-vote-wednesday.shtml

    if you were worried about the EU Copyright Directive, you should be absolutely terrified about the EU Terrorist Content Regulation, which has continued to march forward with very little attention compared to the Copyright Directive

    Terrorist Content Regulation, starting with the requirement that any site (even a one-person blog somewhere outside of the EU) be required to take down content within an hour of notification by an ill-defined “competent authority,” but also covering other aspects, such as requiring mandatory content filters.

    left in the 1 hour content removal requirement. And the largest group in the EU Parliament, the EPP, has already put forth amendments to bring back all the other bad stuff in the proposal.

    As MEP Julia Reda notes, the EU Parliament will now vote on the Terrorist Content Regulation on Wednesday

    https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/reject-terror-filters/

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  19. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Will the EU Parliament uphold or reject “terror filters” on April 17?
    https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/reject-terror-filters/

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