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The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised

posted by martyb on Thursday February 14 2019, @01:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the squeak-now-or-forever-hold-your-grease dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The text of Article13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised and it's utterly awful. It is clear what we do now: contact MEPs and get them to vote down the entire package.

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

Our best bet: The final vote in the plenary of the European Parliament, when all 751 MEPs, directly elected to represent the people, have a vote. This will take place either between March 25 and 28, on April 4 or between April 15 and 18. We've already demonstrated last July that a majority against a bad copyright proposal is achievable.

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:52AM (4 children)

    by zocalo (302) on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:52AM (#800915)
    Even after Brexit English will likely remain an official language of the EU because of the Republic of Ireland, that it's the current international lingua franca, and by doing so it allows them a little more leverage over US tech giants.

    The Republic of Ireland is kind of like New Zealand in a way; it's the country that often gets overlooked, only instead of being left off maps like New Zealand, it's overlooked when thinking about political matters of the EU. e.g. the fact it presents a physical land border between the EU and UK and all that entailed (even before the Good Friday Agreement is factored in) was overlooked by just about the entire Leave Campaign and it's now perhaps the biggest sticking point in getting a deal.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:56AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:56AM (#800928)

    it presents a physical land border between the EU and UK

    Are you thinking of Scotland? This is Ireland: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Ireland_%28MODIS%29.jpg/800px-Ireland_%28MODIS%29.jpg [wikimedia.org]

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by zocalo on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:57AM

      by zocalo (302) on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:57AM (#800951)
      Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of the UK, whereas The Republic of Ireland is a sovereign country in its own right. There are some other land border issues with Brexit - e.g. Gibralter - but the only physical land border between the EU and UK proper lies between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

      That will change if Scotland ever gets its independance and becomes also sovereign, of course.
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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @12:00PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @12:00PM (#800974)

      Where's my "-1 Clueless" mod when I need it?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:33PM (#801014)

        Indeed.