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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:37PM (2 children)
You further enhance your position as "local nutter".
Who cares about upload filters? News is dead? Various sportsballs dead?
Do you pay any attention to reality? Or do you just form your opinions based on internet discussions amongst angry trolls? The best I can grant you is that "sportsballs" are diminishing but they are hardly dying out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @10:28PM
Is that VLM, the EU or both?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday October 04 2018, @11:38AM
Clearly you agree with me, having provided no factual data nor google-able leads to follow up upon, but graphs of average age of consumers of those legacy products is ... dismal to say the least. Those products are dying. Weird legal wrangling is unlikely to help, and by the time the current legal dust settles those legacy products will be about as relevant to daily life as reforming telegram delivery in 1995.