EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:44AM (#17967964)

Combining two videos in this way would be unlawful in the UK, where we have the very restricted "Fair Dealing" concessions, because downloading the videos in the first place is a tort[0].

Combining them is another, sharing them is another.

We basically have no concept of personal use in our copyright.

[0] if they were broadcast you can record but only for time-shifting, you can only watch once (alone!) and then are obliged to destroy the copy; you aren't allowed to format shift.

The lack of any remaining semblance of balance in copyright between the rights of the demos and media interests shows how badly distorted our Western democracies have become from representing the rights of people in general above the rights of the rich.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by megous on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:02AM (#17968153)

Compare that to my country, where it's perfectly legal to download whatever music or movies you like from the internet for personal use, pirate websites or not. Also a western democracy. So it's not so bad everywhere.

Though a price for this is that we pay a special tax on every storage device we purchase.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by anticensor on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:09PM (#17970199)

Turkey? We pay TRT license for all audiovisual capable equipment which is able to receive TRT content.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by Gaelan on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:47AM (#17968685)

If you don’t mind, where is this?

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by thejenk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:36AM (#17969832)

My mind jumped to Canada when I read the above comment, but really there are a number of countries that fit the mould. Most western countries have a special levy on blank media, including all EU member states except Luxembourg. I don't know which countries don't prohibit the downloading copyrighted material similarly to how they prohibit sharing that media, but Canada is one of them.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by drdaeman on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:01AM (#17969450)

A special tax on storage devices and legal status for downloads matches Russia.

Not a western democracy, though.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by seba_dos1 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:29AM (#17969115)

It's like this in Poland for sure. You can't share, but can download. Doesn't apply to software of course due to its different licensing schema.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by h91wka on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:06AM (#17969501)

That still makes torrenting illegal

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by megous on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:54AM (#17979578)

Yes, but how would you prove how many copies of something someone shared?

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by Gaelan on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:10AM (#17985049)

Not if you just leech, right?

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by egman_ekki on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:16AM (#17968985)

Could be Czech republic or Slovakia.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by megous on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:50AM (#17979549)

Czech republic

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by paulie_a on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:54AM (#17968071)

Honestly the lack of balance with copyright law is why I simply ignore copyrights. They have become irrelevant to me.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by quantum_magpie on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:13AM (#17968268)

Before this law, I would've retorted that it's not the Western democracies that are broken, just the US, and it's padawan, the UK. Now, however, I have to agree. Even the US-like fearmongering and terrorism of armed forces within EU cities is getting more prevalent lately.

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