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martyb
on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:46PM
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
A new Copyright Directive is being drafted for Europe. Within that process the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) has agreed to an amendment that would greatly reduce citizens' rights in regards to online material and even digital material in general. The "snippet tax" aka "link tax" would require licenses for even the tiniest quotations of published material as well as mandating upload filters. Either of these would effectively ban sites like SoylentNews from Europe, but scholarly publishing would suffer as badly.
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EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by jcross on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:46AM (1 child)
Yeah and it seems odd that in an age when we're drowning in content, anyone would try to argue that content creators need more protections or people will stop creating content. My guess is they're not even bothering to make that argument, just promoting their industry at the expense of others. Possibly big media is even pushing the law because it hurts small media, not because they expect real revenue from it.
But if something like this actually got passed, I wonder if it would kick-start a mass movement toward copyleft licenses? Just to take one example, the vast majority of bloggers and journalists would be in big trouble if aggregators like soylent had to pay to link/excerpt their articles, because they'd lose a lot of eyeballs. These days the danger isn't getting popular and being unable to monetize, the danger is not being noticed in the first place. Currently default copyright won't hurt your chances of being noticed and linked, but if it did, I suspect a whole lot of outlets would be licensing their content so as to work around it, at the very least with an all-rights-reserved-but-fair-use kind of license. Once you break the stranglehold of copyright-by-default, and a more explicitly sharing-friendly ecosystem develops, it could chart a new path where creators take control instead of letting government decide. Well, I can hope...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:18AM
Don't forget that there is also Creative Commons!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons [wikipedia.org]