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

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by kgwgk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:34AM (#17968514)

If something was a copyright violation yesterday, it will still be a copyright violation tomorrow. And vice versa.

If you fear that arXiv will implement filters that will recognize that what you are uploading is a translation of an obscure Prussian research paper and block the upload, I don't think that's going to happen. (But I will be really impressed if it happens!)

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by isthatart on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:25AM (#17969077)

But what if it is not a copyright violation but it looks like one to some dumb filter? For say 0.5 million articles from arXiv?

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by kgwgk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:32AM (#17969139)

Then the dumb filter (if one is put in place at all) will be tuned to be less dumb, I guess.

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