Europe even wants to ban Creative Commons licenses -- the EU proposals are insane
The EU's latest copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative Commons licenses https://boingboing.net/2018/04/11/evidence-free-zone.html Under the new rules, anyone who allows the public to post material will have to maintain vast databases of copyrighted works claimed by rightsholders, and any public communications that matches anything in these databases has to be blocked. These databases have been tried on much more modest scales -- Youtube's Content ID is a prominent example -- and they're a mess. Because rightsholders are free to upload anything and claim ownership of it, Content ID is a font of garbagey, sloppy, fraudulent copyright abuse: five different companies claim to own the rights to white noise; Samsung claims to own any drawing of its phones; Nintendo claims it owns gamers' animated mashups; Sony claims it owns stock footage it stole from a filmmaker whose work it had censored; the biggest music companies in the world all claim to own the rights to "Silent Night", a rogues' gallery of sleazy copyfraudsters claim to own NASA's spacecraft landing footage -- all in all, these systems benefit the large and the unethical at the cost of small and nimble. That's just for starters ... - - - How many years have I been warning that the EU is the worst risk to freedom of speech on the planet, dedicated to enforcing their own sick regimes around the world? They make Russia, China, and even North Korea look like the good guys in these contexts by comparison. It was clear where they were going once they started their monstrous "Right To Be Forgotten" nonsense. Yep, we may have to cut Europe off the Net entirely if this keeps up. How about blocking all users coming from European ip addresses? Will it come to that? If the twisted EU politicians and bureaucrats have their way, we might have to actually go that far just to protect ourselves! --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
