Quoting from [1]: <<Our freedom to upload media and share links, and thus to express ourselves online, is under threat.>>
Comments: We neved had the freedom to upload (distribute) the property of someone else without explicit licence. We do have the licence to quote, however. Sharing a link is the internet version of citing a publication. However, links are used to point at pirated copies if someone else's property. The new regulation aims at suppressing pirates, not our freedom of expression. Having said this, there is hardly any awareness of the ongoing debate on European media. On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:41, Craig Skinner <skin...@britvault.co.uk> wrote: > Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:03:38 +0000 From: Greg > Sutcliffe via Falkirk To: Falkirk User Group Subject: [Falkirk] EU > copyright reform - links from my talk Last night I gave a quick talk on the > proposed EU Copyright Reform, and the awful state it's in. We *all* need to > care about this - in it's current form it's going to wreck the internet as we > know it, and I don't sling phrases like that about lightly. You can read more > about the issues with the reform on Julia Reda's blog[1] and the Open Rights > Group have a post on it as well[2]. Both contain links to speaking with your > MEP, but I'd suggest hitting up https://www.TheyWorkForYou.com/ and getting > in touch with your MP as well - member states get a say in this as well as > the MEP parties. This is looking like a very tight vote (currently just 1 > vote in favour of it). Let's change that. Thanks Greg [1] > https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/ [2] > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2018/filters-are-for-coffee-and-water-not-copyright > @mailman.lug.org.uk> @mailman.lug.org.uk>
