SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
A piece of proposed EU legislation has for many months now included drastic changes to the Union's copyright laws. Feedback from industry lobbyists looks very much like it is adopted uncritically to the exclusion of other interests. This is especially noticeable in what has been going on with Articles 11 and 13 of the Council on the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market [2016/0280(COD)]. CopyBuzz summarizes some of the more salient points regarding press publisher's rights (Article 11) and upload/censorship filters (Article 13) identified in the latest set of proposals.
Currently it is Bulgaria's turn to head the Council of the European Union, a position that rotates every six months among EU member states. One of the responsibilities of that position is to oversee the Council's work on EU legislation. However, with the recent rotation, the copyright situation looks grimmer rather than gaining a respite.
See CopyBuzz : Compromises on (c) are clearly no longer on the agenda.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:38PM (2 children)
I have also wondered whether the name "pirate" is a good idea, and that good alternatives might be the Sharing Party, or the Robin Hood Party, or possibly the Education Party. But I finally I decided the Pirate name is just fine. Pirates have a kind of bad boy, rule breaking coolness to them. The printing and entertainment industry has tried for centuries to smear copying as theft, and I'm pleased to note, has failed. More and more, people are seeing through their propaganda and bull. It's especially helpful when the entertainment moguls indulge in their stupid greed and go too far, angering large majorities of the public, like for instance with the unskippable commercials on optical media. The biggest indication of Pirate viability and the acceptableness of the name is that they've won elections.
One problem with a name such as the Sharing Party is that it is too easily vilified. It could be taken to mean Communism, and extreme wealth redistribution. The Pirate name is much better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:39PM
Pirates are cool. Robin Hood Party could be read as Socialist Party.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:07PM
"Pirates are fun!" -Robert Webb
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh