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The EU copyright directive and its potential impact on cultural diversity on the internet 04/02/2020 by Till Kreutzer
On July 6, the EU adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive), following heated discussions of Articles 15 (formerly 11) and 17 (formerly 13) in particular. In Germany, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against the planned legislation in the lead-up to the vote in the European Parliament in March. Article 17 imposes much stricter liability on platforms such as YouTube. In the future, for example, these platforms will have to obtain permission from copyright holders for music videos uploaded by users. If they fail to do so, they will have to ensure that the content in question is not available on their service. The directive still needs to be transposed into the national legislation of the member states of the European Union by June 2021. Read more
How Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive threatens Let's Play and Walkthrough Culture 29/08/2019 by Till Kreutzer
- copyright
- EU
- Europe
- Reform
- directive
- upload filter
- licence
- YouTube
- Games
- permission
- Article 17
- user content
Article 17 of the new EU Copyright Directive tightens the liability of platform providers such as Youtube. Creative content from legal grey areas might disappear from the net. This especially applies to gaming videos such as Let's Plays or Walkthroughs. Read more
Council lets copyright reform pass – The die is cast 16/04/2019 by Tom Hirche
The controversial EU directive on copyright reform has been adopted. On April 15, 2019, the majority of EU member states voted in favour of the directive. Germany additionally submitted a protocol declaration. Read more
Reda: "You'll wish the mails had all come from bots." 06/03/2019 by Tom Hirche
The way is clear for the final vote of the European Parliament on the copyright reform. On 27 February, a majority of its Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted in favour of the negotiated compromise. However, EU citizens' criticism of the plan is growing louder and louder - just before the European elections. Read more
Stop the censorship machine! 13/03/2017 by Tom Hirche
Besides the introduction of an ancillary copyright for press publishers a.k.a. the link tax, the European Commission also wants internet platforms to apply automated upload filtering technologies to all of their user's content. Together with 27 other civil society organisations, we have signed an open letter addressed to the European Institutions and urge them to delete this proposal. Read more