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European Union Article 13 is Almost Final

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

canopic jug writes:

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: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Friday January 11 2019, @07:39PM (2 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday January 11 2019, @07:39PM (#785184) Journal

    These copyright trolls refuse to get it. We are not turning the clock back to 1989, before the Internet went big, before there was mp3 and Napster, and before the consumer grade CD burner and 0.5G hard drives. If this is passed, and it's toothy and obnoxious enough, a lot of sites may decide to go dark. How draconian will it be? Is just one "bad" link enough to put the site in violation, no matter how many millions of legit links it has? I see no practical way for search engines, forums such as SoylentNews and Reddit, and knowledge aggregators and repositories such as Wikipedia to comply. Even Project Gutenberg might have to go dark. Policing their links wouldn't be enough. What if, buried deep in a cyberpunk SF novel, there are naughty links? The trolls have shown they have no scruples. They'd probably like it if Project Gutenberg went dark.

    If they do go dark, wonder how long a repeal will take? Politicians will think the protests against SOPA and PIPA were small and polite compared to the backlash potential of this. I don't know how similar the EU is to the US, but I'm imagining another way forward is that their high court could quickly strike the law down.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by khallow on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:20AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:20AM (#785341) Journal

    If this is passed, and it's toothy and obnoxious enough, a lot of sites may decide to go dark.

    Even worse, they might just decide to go outside the EU and keep doing what they're doing without regard for the law.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @11:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @11:34AM (#785463)

    Just disable comments from anywhere in the EU. Done. Easy. Move on.