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posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @04:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the triskaidekaphobia? dept.

MEP [Member of European Parliament] Julia Reda provides an update on the EU Copyright Directive which is in the final drafting stages. The whole text will be finalized January 21st but the infamous Article 13 is already set and Internet platforms will be made directly liable for any copyright infringements their users commit, should the final text be voted in.

What remains in the drafting stage in regards to Article 13 is to decide exactly which lengths will platforms need to go to and just how much they will need to restrict our ability to post and share content online in order to avoid or limit their liability.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Friday January 11 2019, @04:52PM (5 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday January 11 2019, @04:52PM (#785112)
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:05PM (#785124)

    I knew The Russians were going to be involved at some point.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:45PM (#785144)

    If i got the correct text, frazes like "giving access to large amounts of works" means absolutely nothing in terms of who is liable. 2 is many, 3 could be large amount.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:32PM (#785157)

    Worth reading this...

    No it isn't, it was written by El Reg's resident MAFIAA/pro copyright lobby shill and isn't by any measure objective.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @07:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @07:30PM (#785180)

    For once, Big Tech is doing something good by opposing this.

    This "copyright above all else" bullshit is a few orders of magnitude more dangerous than if copyright itself were outright wiped off the face of the Earth. And yes, there are many reasons to make intellectual work without copyright; if there weren't we'd have never left caves.

    Besideswhich, most of the losers here are just other megacorps that already acrewed over the "little guy" content creators anyway.