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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: 2) by Spamalope on Friday June 22 2018, @04:13AM (2 children)
If a big label artist 'samples' my work, does my work get blocked? This is going to be something where only the media cartels get protection isn't it?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Booga1 on Friday June 22 2018, @05:45AM (1 child)
It's worse than that. I know someone who had their Youtube video taken down because the one piece of music they use hit their content filter.
The thing was, he had permission for it, direct from the artist. It didn't matter. The artist had posted the work on three different sites with slightly different terms of use, and one of them had registered the piece with Youtube's content filter.
Because they didn't license it directly through that particular outlet, he couldn't use it at all, despite being able to prove he had the rights to use it. Youtube/Google doesn't care. No human looks at this stuff. It's almost all automatic and irreversible.
He got the video back online by changing to some other music from another artist, but I can't help but think this is the worst result possible. The video maker is harmed. The musician is harmed. Youtube is harmed. There's no benefit at all.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday June 22 2018, @01:13PM
Interesting thought... to oversimplify a bit, you can summarize a small time musician has having basically two choices:
1. No rights control at all, anyone can use it for anything = the artist has no control over it
2. Sign rights control over to various automated systems and processes, they control everything = the artist has no control over it
You could try to manually control things, whether directly or through people you delegate, and thus have actual control - but the time and costs are probably prohibitive for a small timer.