Article 13 must go: No desperate last-minute witchcraft can turn it into magic pixie dust
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by Glyn Moody
4y ago
After years of thrashing out the text of the proposed update to the EU Copyright Directive, we have come to what is almost certainly the final vote, in the European Parliament plenary early next week. You might think at this stage that it would be all over, with nothing new emerging, and most people simply accepting things as they are. Nothing could be further from the truth. The last few weeks have seen some of the most dramatic developments in the already fraught passage of the Directive through the legislative process. For example, a few weeks ago, the European Commission published on Mediu ..read more
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Interview with Bernd Porr
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by Glyn Moody
4y ago
Bernd Porr is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He straddles the two worlds of science and the arts. He invented the fastest walking robot in the world, numerous artificial intelligence (AI) learning algorithms (that is, sets of rules), deep brain stimulation devices, and models of the emotional system of the brain. He also conducts hearing aid research, and is co-founder of a startup producing data acquisition equipment. Alongside his many-stranded academic research, Porr worked in theatre for more than 10 years as a lighting designer, wrote/produced radio programmes/radio plays, and h ..read more
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Anriette Esterhuysen Interview
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by Glyn Moody
4y ago
Anriette Esterhuysen was the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) until March 2017. Prior to joining APC, Anriette was executive director of SANGONeT, an Internet service provider and training institution for civil society, labour and community organisations. She was active in the struggle against Apartheid from 1980 onwards. From 1987 to 1992 she was involved in information and communication work in development and human rights organisations in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Recently, she was one of the signatories of an open letter to the President of the Eu ..read more
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Article 13 is Not Just Criminally Irresponsible, It’s Irresponsibly Criminal
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by Glyn Moody
4y ago
In a previous editorial, I pointed out that at the heart of Article 13 in the proposed EU Copyright Directive there’s a great lie: that it is possible to check for unauthorised uploads of material without inspecting every single file. The EU has ended up in this absurd position because it knows that many MEPs would reject the idea of imposing a general monitoring obligation on online services – not least because the e-Commerce Directive explicitly forbids it. Instead, the text of Article 13 simply pretends that technical alternatives can be found, without specifying them. The recently-issued ..read more
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Have You Heard? No One Wants the © Reform
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by Herman Rucic
4y ago
Both the Romanian Council Presidency text adopted on Friday 8 February by COREPER I and the version of the copyright Directive adopted in the European Parliament in September 2018, which will form the basis of the trilogue starting on Monday evening, 11 February at 20h CET, have been met by an increasing opposition from a wide-variety of stakeholders, both as regards Article 11 on the press publishers’ right, article 13 on upload filtering and/or even against the Directive as a whole, and this for a number of sometimes diverging reasons. The overview below of those who have voiced their concer ..read more
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Fix the Gaping Hole at the Heart of Article 13: Users’ Rights
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by Glyn Moody
4y ago
 [French translation available at Framablog] The Article 13 cliffhanger continues. Disagreements between France and Germany over exemptions from the requirement to use upload filters halted progress on finalising the new legislation, and offered hope Article 13’s deep damage to the Internet might be avoided at the last minute. But the two countries appear to have reached a compromise that is arguably worse than the original text. It implies that in practice, even the smallest sites will be forced to seek licences, and accept whatever terms are offered to them. This is a recipe for even more ab ..read more
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EU © Reform: Where Italy Makes Sense and the Germans Cave In
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by Caroline De Cock
4y ago
In the never-ending dossier on copyright reform, the latest development makes one wonder if we finally reached the fourth dimension. Following two weeks of silence and closed door negotiations between France and Germany, the Romanian Presidency came out with its new proposal for a negotiation mandate to be voted on this Friday, 8 February 2019, at the Council’s COREPER I meeting, which brings together the Deputy Permanent Representatives to the EU of the Member States (= the deputy Ambassadors), as point 27 on the agenda (close your eyes: it’s Friday after 6 pm and when everyone is already hal ..read more
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Beyond the Bubble: Lessons for Europe’s Copyright Reform from Singapore
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by Stephen Wyber
4y ago
Brussels is often accused of being a bubble. Usually, such claims are made at the Member State level, by those keen to portray the European Union as being out-of-touch and uncaring. However, it could also fairly be made as concerns the way in which law-makers take account of what is going on elsewhere in the world. Other than frequent assertions about American platforms, there has sadly been little curiosity about the wider world. This matters. Europe is in a global competition.  It owes it to its citizens to perform, by supporting innovation and productivity, today and in the future. Looking ..read more
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Over 85 Organisation Call on EU Legislators to Delete Articles 11 & 13
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by Herman Rucic
4y ago
With the EU copyright negotiations having reached a crucial stage, over 85 organisations, representing a broad community of stakeholders ranging from civil society organisations, creators, academics, universities, public libraries, research organisations and libraries, startups, software developers, business organisations, EU online platforms, to Internet Service Providers, are sending a strong signal to the EU legislators: delete Articles 11 and 13 from the copyright reform proposal! On 29 January 2019, over 85 organisations sent an open letter [PDF] on the EU copyright Directive in the Digit ..read more
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Why Article 13 is not just dangerous law-making, but deeply dishonest too
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by Glyn Moody
4y ago
The EU Copyright Directive is now in the last stages of its passage through the EU’s legislative system. Given the advanced nature of the discussions, it is therefore highly surprising that the Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee responsible for steering it through the European Parliament has recently published a “Q and A on the draft digital copyright directive“. But it’s not hard to guess why this document has been published at this time. More and more people are waking up to the fact that the Copyright Directive in general, and Article 13 in particular, will cause huge harm to the Internet in th ..read more
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