MEP Julia Reda has decided to try to lift the lid on the secretive copyright negotiations between the EU Parliament and the EU Council. These negotiations started Tuesday. She goes into detail on the implications of the upload filter, "link tax", and sports ban for individuals and society in general. She takes a close look at the similarities and differences between the current positions of the Council and Parliament and breaks down what the these positions mean.
Today, the first “Trilogue” meeting is held on the EU copyright reform law infamous for its “link tax” and upload filter provisions.
In this series of closed-door meetings, the European Parliament and the Council (representing the member state governments) hammer out a final text acceptable to both institutions. It’s the last chance to make changes before the Directive gets adopted. Meetings are currently scheduled until Christmas, although whether the process will be concluded by then is up in the air.
In light of the massive public attention, I’ve decided to provide some transparency to this normally opaque process. [...]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:08PM (2 children)
Not to give too much credence to a media industry that's full of totally avoidable shammery, but isn't a major part of what investigative journalism so dead because of the difficulty cultivating a paying audience in the internet era?
Opinion is cheap, and gets enough clicks to pay for itself. Real news isn't and doesn't. And thus a contempt for "the news" exacerbates all the problems that makes you so contemptuous in the first place?
I wish there was a third choice other than government controlled, which rapidly devolves to state propoganda, and for profit, which has already devolved into almost pure telling people what they want to hear, as a method for producing information about world events.
(Score: 1) by Mainframe Bloke on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:00AM (1 child)
In spite of all its faults, the ABC here in Oz is still a trusted source: witness the public display of anger at the recent turmoil, including some claims of government interference up to the point of "demanding" the firing troublesome journalists, that were roundly condemned. Of course, it has faults as I say, but I'd rather it than Pravda, the Voice Of America, or CNN/Fox/whatever.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:29AM
The most respected news source here in New Zealand, is Radio NZ, funded by taxpayers.
They're so good in fact that the two private news networks demanded (and got) access to their stories at a price of almost free. Kind of like Reuters, but using taxpayer's money to prop up two horribly managed private companies.
I would like to say the same for the state owned TVNZ but I can't, because that is, and always has been horribly mismanaged also.