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Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda

posted by martyb on Thursday March 29 2018, @10:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-it-or-leave-^w-take-it dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:07PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:07PM (#659964)

    That's why, IMHO, future of democracy are non-participating pressure groups/movements pushing sharp-focused well-defined initiatives.

    Simply,

    • take an idea most of the constituency can get behind,
    • avoid smearing campaigns by actively avoiding minefields of issues which are not directly related and could divide the following,
    • don't attempt to run for office (and get your representative candidates mauled by press, false news and "character assassinations"),
    • don't have actual human frontpersons or leaders (use virtual, cartoon characters) because everyone can be AdHomined,
    • get everyone talking about the topic, make it a thing which any reasonable and honest politicians have to support for their ratings' sake.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:18PM (1 child)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:18PM (#659967) Homepage Journal

    I hope/wish you to be right. I see no reason why the Pirate Party should be taking positions on every issue out there. They should concentrate on the technical.

    But I do see the problem: If you elect a Pirate to Parliament, they will be voting on all issues. And people therefore want to know *how* they will vote. Hence, the pressure to take an official party position.

    --
    Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Thursday March 29 2018, @03:57PM

      by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @03:57PM (#660018) Journal

      I liked very much how Christian Engström and Amelia Andersdotter did it when they got into the EU Parliament. They simply announced what the Pirate Party's three core issues were and would ally with any party or coalition willing to adopt their stance on technical issues. On those issues it worked quite well.

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      Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:26PM (#660029)

    Single issue politics with referenda? Like Switzerland? [wikipedia.org]