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A piece of proposed EU legislation has for many months now included drastic changes to the Union's copyright laws. Feedback from industry lobbyists looks very much like it is adopted uncritically to the exclusion of other interests. This is especially noticeable in what has been going on with Articles 11 and 13 of the Council on the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market [2016/0280(COD)]. CopyBuzz summarizes some of the more salient points regarding press publisher's rights (Article 11) and upload/censorship filters (Article 13) identified in the latest set of proposals.
Currently it is Bulgaria's turn to head the Council of the European Union, a position that rotates every six months among EU member states. One of the responsibilities of that position is to oversee the Council's work on EU legislation. However, with the recent rotation, the copyright situation looks grimmer rather than gaining a respite.
See CopyBuzz : Compromises on (c) are clearly no longer on the agenda.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:20PM (3 children)
If nobody tries to break the laziness of the world in shaking bad habits, where's the opportunity for this to actually happen?
Granted, it would be easier to apply marketing and spin and look for what the world wants to hear. But this require an effort that goes in a direction different to supporting the principles you believe in.
Even more of a reason not to behave like the megacorps and adopt their spin tactics. Why should the pirate parties fight an "perceived image" skirmish when the "copyright war" is the focus?
Look at the two parties in US - both of them fell into using marketing and PR tactics, to the value of billions.
That to the point no 'common man' get to recognize any principle or value in either of the two parties.
This is why Trump won: he managed to stick the "establishment" and "swamp" labels on them and behave differently - a great magician trick considering his proposition was equally lacking value as his (both D and R) opponents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 29 2018, @03:40PM
Here's an interesting discussion of just that [c-span.org]
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by letssee on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:44PM (1 child)
>If nobody tries to break the laziness of the world in shaking bad habits, where's the opportunity for this to actually happen?
Granted, it would be easier to apply marketing and spin and look for what the world wants to hear. But this require an effort that goes in a direction different to supporting the principles you believe in.
If you lose the elections because people dismiss based on your name, before they even look at your ideas, you won't be able to change copyright law. Which is after all the purpose of the pirate parties. You won't be able to do anything, actually. And it's not as if picking a bad name for your political party will really educate the unwashed masses .
Fostering intellectual discourse and battling laziness is also a good cause, but a political party is ,imho, not the best way to do that.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:22PM
Not the worst way either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford