Besides, as a long time activist for internet freedom, I agree that something like article 13 is urgently needed.
There is no freedom without protection.
What EU is trying to do is to protect the small local EU actors against the tech giants from outside EU.
> Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues”
> Uploaders can complain about blocked uploads and request impartial, human review. (it means real justice, not Facebook's justice or Twitter justice or youTube's justice)
Believe it or not, the platforms are already liable in case of legal infringement, it's not really different from before.
Right now YouTube just get away with it because "we have too much content to check".
The small players don't because, well, they are too small to even get a chance to fight.
Are they? From what I understand, in the latest proposal they're not except. Or maybe only when they're less than 3 years old, which isn't very helpful.
The real problem is that the technology for this doesn't even exist, and if it exists, it exists only in the hands of Facebook and Google, forcing everybody else into their arms, giving Facebook and Google even more power.
> Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues”
So that means every single blog has to get licenses with an unlimited number of potential rights holders on the off chance that a commenter might quote something from them. That's completely unreasonable.
> Believe it or not, the platforms are already liable in case of legal infringement, it's not really different from before.
It is different, because after this passes, platforms are required to filter using technology that doesn't exist, and will probably err on simply blocking nearly everything from the EU, just to be safe.
Has any of the supporters of this law considered that in order to check all uploads against copyrighted material, every single platform needs access to a database containing every single copyright work? Nowhere have I seen any reasonable explanation of how this is supposed to work.
Available to the public for less than 3 years AND
Annual turnover below €10 million AND
Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors
I understand that the title is a little misleading, but come on!
P.S. I'm italian too.