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European Union Article 13 is Almost Final

posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @04:08PM   
from the triskaidekaphobia? dept.

canopic jug writes:

MEP [Member of European Parliament] Julia Reda provides an update on the EU Copyright Directive which is in the final drafting stages. The whole text will be finalized January 21^st but the infamous Article 13 is already set and Internet platforms will be made directly liable for any copyright infringements their users commit, should the final text be voted in.

What remains in the drafting stage in regards to Article 13 is to decide exactly which lengths will platforms need to go to and just how much they will need to restrict our ability to post and share content online in order to avoid or limit their liability.

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Original Submission

• Dear Brussels(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:49PM (#785518)

  I'm sure you are well aware that he Internet is international.
  Users are identified by their IP addresses.
  It is often difficult for a web site to tell if a specific user is in your jurisdiction or not.

  If you wish to make a law that applies to Internet users or web sites in your jurisdiction, then you need to provide a list of the IP addresses for the users that the law should apply to.
  This will make it possible for web sites to follow your law.
  Without it, you are asking folks to do the impossible.

  Note that a user in this list will be at a disadvantage over users outside your jurisdiction.
  That you put your users at a disadvantage is between you and your citizens.
  But this is not so for users outside your jurisdiction.

  But please be careful not to put folks outside you jurisdiction in this list.
  That would be a matter of international relations outside your jurisdiction.