On 2 October 2017 at 09:38, Nicolas M. Thiery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Sage developers, > > Summary: the EU is looking to pass a new copyright act that would > require sharing platforms to filter for copyright infringements. For > software sharing platforms like GitHub, GitLab, ... this is very > problematic and might endanger open source development as we know it. > > You may want to read https://savecodeshare.eu/ and sign the open letter > by the Free Software Foundation Europe to the EU there. > I sent an email accidentatly before completing it. For those living in the UK, or having UK citizenship, they might want to look into this https://www.gov.uk/petition-government EU law requires agreement of all member states. If this matter received 100,000 signatories, it would have to be debated in the UK Parliament. I can't see the UK agreeing to any new laws at the minute, with Brexit on the agenda. I suspect such a bill, even if passed by the EU, would have negligible effect on open source. Many developers are outside the EU, and a lot of hosting is outside the EU. If it was delayed long enough for the UK to be outside the EU, then it would not matter here either. At sci-hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub you can download millions of academic papers behind paywalls. There are lots of lawsuits against sci-hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Lawsuits but they have little chance of getting any money, as the site is hosted in Russia. In the UK the government is trying to get companies like Facebook to take down certain forms of material, with little success. I don't think this proposed EU legistation would be high on their priority list. If anyone can convince me this is a real threat to open-source software, then I'll sign it, but otherwise I don't think I'll bother. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
