The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised

Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:44PM (#19159458)

I don't disagree with you on this point. But the fact that our copyright system went a little overboard isn't justification to allow extremely evil companies blanket immunity from prosecution for the wide variety of abuses certain major tech companies profit in. Section 230 in particular has been trotted out as a defense in far too many scenarios where no defense should have been adequate.

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by cromwellian on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:17AM (#19160835)

Extremely evil? For links with text summarization algorithms that extract a sentence or two?

As I said in another post, as if late 2016 (the latest article I could find), no analyst could determine if YouTube ever made a profit, and there's some suspicion it still is losing money because Google won't break out its earnings in quarterly reports.

And YouTube one could early at least offers a system that lets content creators takedown content, or monetize it.

In light of this, the Chapter 13 stuff is vast overkill, and quite obviously, regulatory capture.

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