The proposed shake-up to copyright law will only entrench the dominance of tech giants. There are other,better waysThe growth of the internet and user-generated content in the past 15 years has been underpinned by speed and ease of use. The foundations for this are commonly referred to as “secure harbour” provisions in copyright law. This means that organisations that allow users to upload content to their websites – Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook et al – are not liable for copyright infringement of their users,but are required to speedily remove content after the fact, whether a copyright makes a complaint. Now, and through article 13 of its new copyright directive,the EU is curtailing these secure harbour provisions, and thereby challenging the very basis of a free and open internet.
Imagine that you upload content to a video-sharing website and then bear to wait for days for it to seem after it is vetted. That could be the future of the internet in the EU.
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Source: theguardian.com