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

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 DeathMonkey on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:04PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:04PM (#801112) Journal

    The constitution would not prevent us to returning to the definition of "limited time" that we used in the past.

    I think most of the problems would be resolved if we just made "limited time" equal to five or ten years.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 15 2019, @12:36AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @12:36AM (#801305) Journal

    The constitution would not prevent us to returning to the definition of "limited time" that we used in the past.

    I agree we should have done that long ago, but that doesn't give the states the power to do so on their own initiative.