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Internet Luminaries Urge EU To Kill Off Automated Copyright Filter Proposal (theregister.co.uk)
A large group of Internet pioneers have sent an open letter to the European Union urging it to scrap a proposal to introduce automated upload filters, arguing that it could damage the internet as we know it. The Register: The European Parliament's Legal Affairs (Juri) Committee will vote on the proposal contained in Article 13 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive next week. The proposal would see all companies that "store and provide to the public access to large amounts of works" obliged to "prevent the availability... of works... identified by rightholders." Despite the inclusion of language that says such measures need to be "appropriate and proportionate," it has caused many to worry that the law will lead to a requirement for all platforms to introduce automated content filtering, and shift liability for any copyrighted material that appears online from the user that posts it to the platform itself.
"By inverting this liability model and essentially making platforms directly responsible for ensuring the legality of content in the first instance, the business models and investments of platforms large and small will be impacted," warns the letter [PDF] signed by "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf, world world web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, as well a host of other internet luminaries including Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, security expert Bruce Schneier and net neutrality namer Tim Wu.
"By inverting this liability model and essentially making platforms directly responsible for ensuring the legality of content in the first instance, the business models and investments of platforms large and small will be impacted," warns the letter [PDF] signed by "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf, world world web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, as well a host of other internet luminaries including Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, security expert Bruce Schneier and net neutrality namer Tim Wu.
In the USA you are free to talk, publish. Free after publication. Free to tell a joke in visual form. Talk about politics using a cartoon, photo, a quote.
In the EU all such use of art and creativity is not legal. Quoting text? Using an image to comment on the news?
The EU will use new legal powers to stop publication and comment. No quotes from publications.
Quoted from a text? Thats a good time to place an EU tax on a public comment.
What the EU cannot make illegal under freedom of speech it will use a new tax on to go after all political speech.
The EU wants a digital Stamp Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... on the all text of the US internet.
Any comment on the web will have to be EU approved. Pay a per word text tax to the EU for your creativity and ingenuity.
EU fines on people who quote EU publications?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"