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Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the plenty-of-lead-time dept.

canopic jug writes:

Rick Falkvinge writes that on October 10th a committee within the European Parliament will vote on future copyright law in Europe. Former MEP (2009-2014), Christian Engström, provided a description of how to provide feedback to the European Parliament. Polite, clear, to the point feedback from EU citizens and residents would be most useful.

In particular, there are two really bad proposals and three really good proposals that warrant special attention, mixed in and buried in all the words. The good propoals are the mandatory freedom of panorama, the freedom to remix, and the freedom for anybody to datamine. The two bad proposals, quite dreadful actually, are to require sites to carry out mandatory upload filtering and a link tax which makes it impossible to link to articles in the legacy media.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:25PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:25PM (#570832)

    Well, there is this [huffingtonpost.com]. Whether it's a failing in your society that you should pay attention to the most powerful one is up for debate.

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