Should you check the European Parliament's agenda for September 12, you would find the voting on "Copyright in the Digital Single Market", the proposed new European Directive on Copyright.
Draft agenda - Wednesday, 12 September 2018 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=AGENDA&reference=20180912&secondRef=SIT&language=EN This newly-proposed legislation is infamous for introducing two censorship mechanisms: censored content which can never be referred (article 13), and content that cannot be referred without paying for it (article 11). The introduction of a censorship machinery in Internet would be catastropic, because once commissioned its use would be quite easily abused. This proposed legislation would be particularly damaging for Software Freedom. The Free Software Foundation Europe calls for acting on it: "Call to Action: Save Free Software this September" https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180905-02.en.html Cory Doctorow writes in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website an article explaining why the entire world should raise in arms against the catastrophe that looms over Internet: Why the Whole World Should Be Up in Arms About the EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/why-whole-world-should-be-arms-about-eus-looming-internet-catastrophe On his own website BoingBoing, he explains the bleeding case of musicians that have had their recordings retired from YouTube because Sony says it owns the copyright for the works of Johann Sebastian Bach: The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html On his most recent article, Cory reviews todays situations, calling the threat not a catastrophe but a Extinction-Level Event: 6 days until the EU votes on an extinction-level event for the internet: here's what they'll debate / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/06/six-days-left-2.html On of the articles that Cory Doctorow quotes is publised by Wikimedia (the publishers from Wikipedia), and on it the german music professor Ulrich Kaiser relates his experience publishing in YouTube old classical music recordings completely free of copyright and discovering that YouTube takes all of them out claiming copyright violations, making to publish classical music practically impossible. The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html Let's remember: this is what is already legal, authors in Internet platforms are facing the unpleasant task of proving that their audiovisual is free of copyright every time a big company makes a reclamation, which they are getting used to do systematically, at a big scale, and without the smallest verification. If the proposed legislation would be approved as it is, the situation would became worst: there wouldn't be any need of a reclamation for this to happen, the censorships would be previous and systematical. Can Beethoven send takedown requests? A first-hand account of one German professor’s experience with overly broad upload filters – Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requests-a-first-hand-account-of-one-german-professors-experience-with-overly-broad-upload-filters/ These are the two campaigns to stop articles 13 and 11. If you feel you oppose them, take action: #SaveYourInternet - Fight the #censorshipmachine https://saveyourinternet.eu/ Save The Link | Save The Link https://savethelink.org/ -- Ignacio Agulló · [email protected]
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