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A European parliament committee has voted in favour of the Copyright Directive, leaving tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon in the lurch over publication rights.
The directive will force online publications to pay a portion of their revenues to publishers, and take on full responsibility for any copyright infringement on the internet.
As a result, any service that allows users to post text, sound, or video for public consumption must also implement an automatic filter to scan for similarities to known copyrighted works, censoring those that match.
The vote passed by the legal affairs committee is likely to be taken as the political body's official line during further EU negotiations next month, unless a new vote is forced by lawmakers appealing the decision.
Julia Reda has more details of the vote
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @01:45AM (3 children)
I refuse. SN should also. Fuck literally everything about this. Automated filters cannot and will never be able to handle fair use. The copyright landscape is a fucking nightmare, with different things in the public domain in different countries.
As far as I know, SN is not based in Europe. Fuck them.
Anyone reading in the EU: Start making noise. Send daily messages to your MP.
The only good that could come out of this is an international discussion about copyright. And its sole purpose: to enrich the PUBLIC DOMAIN. You know, that store of vibrant and relevant cultural works we can all freely access and remix (which hasn't had anything added to it for fucking generations, since Steamboat Willie)? And how, back when copyright started when the printing press was a novel idea, it was 14 years in length with a single renewal. Today that should be 5 max, maybe with one renewal, not life plus anything or 70-100 years.
Pull out of all international copyright agreements (as they are unconstitutional), and set copyright to what it actually should be.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 22 2018, @02:37AM
My sentiments exactly.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:19AM
I believe this will happen only if a good sized majority of us know exactly who is behind all this, and make it damn clear they will no longer spend any time as a public representative if they don't fix this mess.
I know good and well my Congressmen are mixed up in this, and they are certainly not representing *me*. Their only purpose seems to be a deflection shield for getting corporate wish lists codified into statutory law. I find it extremely frustrating that we do not organize likewise, and overthrow the R&D apple cart, and vote some people into power that are accountable to the people who voted them in.
But for now, we still seem to be too influenced by the microphone-men, the mailers, and the press... and who controls those? We've gotta stop giving those corporate buffoons the time of day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @03:34PM
yep. screw these @#$%#@$%^. site operators in the eu should be responding with overwhelming force. if these stupid weasels get this filter enforced how long would it be before they filter everything else they don't like. i'm sure "hate speech" like "copyright lawyers are parasites" would be on the chopping block. why are they so scared of ideas? the internet is not for keeping people dumb and they hate that. you idiots can't stop shit but i hope you die for trying.