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Wikimedia Warns EU Copyright Reform Threatens the 'Vibrant Free Web' (techcrunch.com)
The Wikimedia Foundation has sounded a stark warning against a copyright reform proposal in Europe that's due to be voted on by the European Parliament next week. From a report: In the post, also emailed to TechCrunch, Maria Sefidari Huici, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation, writes: "Next week, the European Parliament will decide how information online is shared in a vote that will significantly affect how we interact in our increasingly connected, digital world. We are in the last few moments of what could be our last opportunity to define what the Internet looks like in the future. The next wave of proposed rules under consideration by the European Parliament will either permit more innovation and growth, or stifle the vibrant free web that has allowed creativity, innovation, and collaboration to thrive. This is significant because copyright does not only affect books and music, it profoundly shapes how people communicate and create on the internet for years to come."
Backers of the reform proposals argue they will help European creatives be fairly recompensed for their work. But critics argue the proposals are not balanced and will chill the creative freedoms of web users to share and comment on content online.
Backers of the reform proposals argue they will help European creatives be fairly recompensed for their work. But critics argue the proposals are not balanced and will chill the creative freedoms of web users to share and comment on content online.
this is bad..
Making inexpensive travel avaliable - particularly to the Czech Republic with our cheap hotel in Prague!
It looks like the law requires every blog owner to implement an omniscient version of Youtube's much hated ContentID system to insure that nothing uploaded bears any similarity to any past work. It would basically be impossible to run a site like Slashdot under that requirement. The false positive rate would undoubtedly be incredible. Big media cartels were tired of having to do their job and want everybody else to do it for them.
If this goes through about the only solution for every comment section will be to just geoblock the EU until some gigantic content clearinghouse is created. Even then such a service would be too expensive for most message boards so only players like Facebook and Google will be able to run blogs.
I read the internet for the articles.
and the 1st amendment will make usa sites safe. But they may need to go USA only and block EU
https://torrentfreak.com/fox-s...
may end game reviews and Let's play's other then ones picked by the game dev's.
Just think I have this POS game that was rushed out and now I can use the law to take down the bad reviews.
From normal commerce. We'll see how that plays out. Sure, demanding more money always results in more money, no one ever turns away and finds another fungible source for the same stuff, right? - unless you're exceptional and unique. Don't they lambaste Americans who think that kinda stuff?
Maybe the Brits are leaving a sinking ship just in time...
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
She says the proposal is to be tabled.
US Speak - to table something is to take it off the table and not discuss it until later.
UK Speak - to table something is to put it on the table to discuss it now (yes, 180 opposite of US).
EU Speak - nobody knows
The US, for now, still has 47 U.S.C. 230, even as FOSTA/SESTA/Republicans gut it daily. Perhaps The EU will reconsider joining free discourse.
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Tech companies should just block europe and let them have their own little walled version of the Internet. Who wants to deal with all this stuff they keep coming up with?
... is that publicly-consumed IP has lost its value.
An essential component of demand is the friction encountered when making an acquisition.
In the days of radio, TV, theaters, albums, and live tours, the consumers were far removed from the content.
Nowadays, the Internet provides a well-lubricated "all you can eat," instant buffet of gratification.
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I'm 72 years old.
I remember Coke being a special, occasional treat.
The go-to beverages for parents were cheaper drinks like tea and Kool Aid.
Same with candy.
Halloween was a bonanza because that was the one time of year when it was available by the gobs.
Nowadays, ice boxes are chock full of Cokes and every house has candy galore.
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IP has, with few exceptions, become valueless to the consumer and that's the side of the equation that drives the revenue structure.
When IP is digitized, it enters the Public Domain by default. ~ CaptainDork
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Look at the provision. Slashdot would be liable for everything its users post. Someone puts up a link to a mp3 file they would be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of euros in damages. Someone posts lyrics to a modern song and Slashdot will be party to the lawsuit. They have to become content police and personally examine every post before letting it be shown on the site. That's several full time jobs worth of effort.
I read the internet for the articles.