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Re:Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive by zaarn on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:18AM (#19450316)
In the EU you can't easily release content into the public domain, in Germany it's impossible to do that.
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Re:Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive by majewsky on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:08AM (#19450555)
What's more, since there is only one collecting society for each type of media (which is always the case afaik), German law allows the collecting society to just assume that all works in existence are made by their members.

When someone plays music at an event, the collecting society will try to collect royalties from them, even if it's just CC or public-domain music, and the organiser is guilty until proven innocent.

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