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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @02:48AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @02:48AM (#800847)

    This story just broke the law and infringed copyright?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by RandomFactor on Thursday February 14 2019, @02:50AM (4 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 14 2019, @02:50AM (#800849) Journal

    Well, yes....

    Reproducing more than “single words or very short extracts” of news stories will require a licence. That will likely cover many of the snippets commonly shown alongside links today in order to give you an idea of what they lead to. We will have to wait and see how courts interpret what “very short” means in practice – until then, hyperlinking (with snippets) will be mired in legal uncertainty.

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    В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:48AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:48AM (#800868)

      So... You just broke the law again?

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 14 2019, @05:40PM (1 child)

        by bob_super (1357) on Thursday February 14 2019, @05:40PM (#801059)

        How do I quote AC without breaking the law ?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:20PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:20PM (#801253)

          Send me $1 for every view it gets.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @01:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @01:14AM (#801320)

      Since the "news article" being linked, is a 13KiB HTML file pulling in 100KiB of javascript and 500KiB of images, the full text of the actual article should be fully reproducible - its likely less then 0.01% of the page being linked.

  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:32AM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:32AM (#800919)

    Nope.

    If you read the article... (I know that is a stretch for most people...) The author closes with the following sentence:

    To the extent possible under law, the creator has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:23PM (#801183)

      Do we know to which extent this will be possible under article 13 then?