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The EU's Dodgy Article 13 Copyright Directive has Been Rejected

posted by martyb on Friday July 06 2018, @07:15AM   
from the Don't-let-your-Memes-be-Dreams dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The European Parliament has voted against a controversial proposed new copyright law that critics warned could imperil a free and open internet. The Copyright Directive, which contained the particularly concerning Article 13, was rejected by 318 votes to 278, with 31 abstentions. The EU's proposed copyright reforms will now be debated again in September, giving policymakers more time to discuss and refine the crucial dossier.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC he hoped that the music industry could find a way to compromise before the September debate.

Don't think about filtering everything everyone uploads to the internet. Instead, he added, they should look to renegotiating deals with platforms such as YouTube to get "fairer remuneration".

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• Re:Like our own judicial and legislative branches Re:Like our own judicial and legislative branches (Score: 5, Interesting) by zocalo on Friday July 06 2018, @10:01AM (2 children)

  by zocalo (302) on Friday July 06 2018, @10:01AM (#703432)

  Actually, if you read the various articles, it's only 11 and 13 - especially 13 - that are problematic; the rest are all actually pretty clear and reasonable clauses that do things like provide creators more control over what publishers can do with their material, define additional "Fair Use" clauses for things like scientific use. The ideal outcome would probably be to strike clauses 11 and 13, then pass the rest pretty much as-is as that would make it much harder for those that want clauses 11 and 13 to get them through on their own. Instead, the copyright cartels and their lobbyists are now going to get the chance to go back and re-word the two offending clauses and try and get them passed in a revised and only slightly watered-down form. As Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda said; "we need to remain vigilent".

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• Re:Like our own judicial and legislative branches (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @10:37AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @10:37AM (#703439)

  The ideal outcome would probably be to strike clauses 11 and 13

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• Re:Like our own judicial and legislative branches (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @06:00PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @06:00PM (#703580)

  that's exactly what these vermin will do. slink back into their rat holes, weasel up the wording and try to wait until no one is looking to try to sneak their abominable shit through again. they need to be live streamed while they burn alive.

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