Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by pierreb on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:12AM
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Sorry -- not all affected platforms are run by "big corporations". All for-profit plateforms over 3 years old are affected, even small ones. This will severely harm the EU startup scene in that category.
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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by unicornporn on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:34AM
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> All for-profit plateforms over 3 years old are affected, even small ones
https://www.politico.eu/pro/germany-weighs-in-on-copyright-w...
So, what happened to that? ^
Parliament wanted:
> Apply the law to platforms that “optimise and promote” significant amounts of user-uploaded works and are not small businesses (turnover below €10M and less than 50 employees)
According to: https://juliareda.eu/2018/10/copyright-trilogue-positions/
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by makomk on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:41AM
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Apparently, France happened to that: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by unicornporn on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:53AM
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So you're saying this is what passed? If it wasn't for the "Available to the public for less than 3 years", I wouldn't be as worried.
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Upload filters must be installed by everyone except those services which fit all three of the following extremely narrow criteria:
* Available to the public for less than 3 years
* Annual turnover below €10 million
* Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by Gudahtt on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:17AM
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Yes, this is what passed.
The "5 million unique monthly visitors" point is concerning too, because that term is not clearly defined.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by kaybe on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:35AM
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Does that rule contain a definition of 'platform'? I probably cannot just change the name every 3 years, can I?
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by pierreb on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:27AM
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The term they use is "online content sharing platform" + some rules about organizing content. Please see the text, it is a bit messy, I think it is better than quoting parts of it here. Depends on how you interpret it.