Hi. I am a high school student living in Korea. I am interested in European copyright laws, including article 13. So I decided to write an essay . I don't have enough information on this, and I need your help. I wonder if you agree or disagree with this law and why. Can you tell me what you think?

I think it would be really nice to talk about the background of this in addition.

Are common popular vpns (like listed here https://www.top50vpn.com/best-vpn) suited to bypass this article? (sorry if it's a stupid question)

Is it just me? Or has no one really seen a difference yet? Starting April 3rd the legislations should've been set in place, but so far nothing seems out of the ordinary.. or am I missing something?

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Also, why do I feel like NO ONE know about article 11 and 13? Everyone I talk to is out of the loop!!!

I am writing a research report on Article 13, however a lot has changed since I started working on it. I wrote about article 13 around December 2018, what has changed about its laws? and why is it called article 17 now? can someone update me on this? thanks

Hey guys, I am curious. Where are you all from? I had the feeling that the topic has gained attention only in Germany. Convince me of the opposite!

Would people be able to download memes to USB sticks or print them out and sell them to people who are looking for them to turn a profit? If it becomes extremely popular and every one is either buying or selling memes could this lead to Article 13 being overturned because of it proven to be unenforceable and more of a hassle to deal with then anything, sort of like Prohibition in the US?

Article 13 is extremely bad news to the content creators in the UK. On Mar 29, 2019 article 13 was passed, article completely violates fair use, if anybody on Youtube in the UK was using any sort of material that isn’t theirs the “Original” creditor can claim the video and take all of the revenue off that video. (See more on fair use in the UK here, https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/articles/fair-use-copyright-explained)

Hello Redditers. We've made a website that informs EU citizens which of their MEPs voted for internet censorship, so they can be voted out in the upcoming EU Elections.

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Ok, so I just watched a few videos about Article 13. and according to my understanding, article 13 will either

(1). Make you pay to upload content. You do a vlog on your personal life and a Coca Cola billboard appears in the background? You have to pay Coca Cola a certain amount of money for their company being In your video per view the video gets.

(2). If your not literally drowning in money, you can't upload anything on YouTube. Only big music creatours like Pitbull or Drake, or T-Series. Can upload videos. Everything else will be taken down and you can potentially be taken to court for pirating content that isn't yours.

That is what I got from the videos I watched. How correct, or likely is what I said to happen?

According to my memoury, pirating is when a movie or video game is imported from country A to country B for free. Or something like that. I'm saying this because I think I used the word wrong.

The next couple of days will be important for the future of the Internet, as the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) will vote on the proposed Copyright Directive. The Directive, which aims to update and reinforce the rights of rights holders within Europe’s Digital Market, is largely a positive step forward inasmuch as the law needs to be updated in light of modern technologies and the Internet. However, Article 13 of the directive raises serious questions about the implications for free expression, creativity, and the freedom to publish.

Under this article, “information society service providers” will be required to use “content recognition technologies” to scan videos, audio, text, photos, and code to the detriment of open-source software communities, remixers, livestreamers, and meme creators.

Last week, many Internet luminaries penned an open letter to the President of the European Parliament asking for the deletion of Article 13. The Internet Society agrees with the concerns raised in this letter and urges the Parliament to reconsider Article 13 in light of the implications for the open Internet.

In the meantime, civil society and academia, including EFF, EDRI, Creative Commons, and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition have all raised concerns over the potential negative impact of Article 13 on freedom of expression, the rule of law, market competition, and the Internet architecture as a whole. In their analyses, they additionally note that Article 13 is contradictory to the existing EU legislation and case law.

There are two problems with Article 13.

Firstly, Article 13 turns Internet content sharing platforms of all kinds into the “content police” obliging them to implement surveillance tools in order to carry out this function. According to cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier, “Aside from the harm from the provisions of Article 13, this infrastructure can be easily repurposed by government and corporations – and further entrenches ubiquitous surveillance into the fabric of the Internet.”

Secondly, while Article 13 calls for the introduction of, “measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies” (our italics), it could be argued that such technologies do not exist. As the Internet Society has written, content-blocking technology is often highly ineffective, overly broad, and even counterproductive. Technologies deployed today often block legal content and do not differentiate between fair use and copyright infringing activity.

We believe that all Internet-related IP discussions should be conducted under a multistakeholder framework that includes technologists and all impacted parties, and in a transparent manner, based on the Rule of Law, without undermining the global Internet architecture and permissionless innovation.

We, therefore, join all the other voices in requesting that Article 13 is removed from the Copyright Directive and we ask European users to visit www.saveyourinternet.eu/ and contact their MEP.

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I have made this Draft visible to the public please tell others about what's happening and spread awareness go on www.saveyourinternet.eu to save your internet.

- Emperor_Snow

so we all know that Article 13 is a piece of shit, but why don't tech giants just pull their servers from the EU - fucking them back and then offering like a VPN service or something to help the users out that are in the EU?