{"id":37707,"date":"2018-09-13T05:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37707"},"modified":"2018-09-13T05:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:45:29","slug":"catastrophic-eu-passes-copyright-directive-including-internet-link-tax-and-upload-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37707","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic\u2019: EU Passes Copyright Directive Including Internet \u2018Link Tax\u2019 and \u2018Upload Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Catastrophic\u2019: EU Passes Copyright Directive Including Internet \u2018Link Tax\u2019 and \u2018Upload Filter<\/a>\u2019<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The European Parliment has passed a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions which force tech giants to install content filters and sets in place a potential\u00a0tax on hyperlinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bill was passed in a final vote of 438 \u2013 226 and\u00a0will need to be implemented by individual EU member states.<\/p>\n

Critics of the directive have been laser-focused on two key provisions: Articles 11 and 13, which they have dubbed the \u201clink tax\u201d and \u201cupload filter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most important parts of this are Articles 11 and 13. Article 11 is intended to give publishers and papers a way to make money when companies like Google link to their stories, allowing them to demand paid licenses. Article 13 requires certain platforms like YouTube and Facebook stop users sharing unlicensed copyrighted material.<\/p>\n

Critics of the Copyright Directive say these provisions are\u00a0disastrous<\/a>. In the case of Article 11, they note that attempts to \u201ctax\u201d platforms like Google News for sharing articles have repeatedly\u00a0failed<\/a>, and that the system would be ripe to abuse by copyright trolls.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Article 13, they say, is even worse. The legislation requires that platforms proactively work with rightsholders to stop users uploading copyrighted content. The only way to do so would be to scan all data being uploaded to sites like YouTube and Facebook. This would create an incredible burden for small platforms, and could be used as a mechanism for widespread censorship.<\/strong> This is why figures like Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee came out so\u00a0strongly<\/a>\u00a0against the directive. \u2013 The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Member of the European\u00a0Parliament,\u00a0Axel Voss, who played a lead roll in pushing for both articles 11 and 13, thanked his fellow MEPs \u201cfor the job we have done together\u201d in the wake of the vote.<\/p>\n

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Catastrophic\u2019: EU Passes Copyright Directive Including Internet \u2018Link Tax\u2019 and \u2018Upload Filter\u2019 The European Parliment has passed a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions which force tech giants to install content filters and sets in place a potential\u00a0tax on hyperlinking. The bill was passed in a final vote of 438 \u2013 226 and\u00a0will need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21632,283,284,21633,15463,15462,21634],"class_list":["post-37707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-copyright-directive","tag-european-parliament","tag-european-union","tag-internet-link-tax","tag-joseph-jankowski","tag-planet-free-will","tag-upload-filter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37708,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37707\/revisions\/37708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}