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What is Article 13? The EU's divisive new copyright plan explained

Articles 11 and 13 of the EU's new copyright directive have stoked fears that memes will effectively be banned and platforms will need to pa

It’s important to note that they have taken out the legislation that calls for automatic filtering of uploaded content as it has been pointed out that it’s too problematic and a bot cannot distinguish between blatant copyright infringement and transformative material.

This is the scary sentence that has people worked up:

“Online sharing service providers and right holders shall cooperate in good faith in order to ensure that unauthorised protected works or other subject matter are not available on their services.”

Right holders will have to tread very carefully around this as any abuse of this sentence could be seen as a violation of the right to freedom of expression which is covered in article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Basically, there can’t be an immediate sweeping blanket ban on our favourite creators as that isn’t proportionate. Right holders will HAVE to cooperate with YouTube and keep their claims to copyright infringement proportionate. YouTube, in turn will have to be more careful on what gets uploaded onto their platform, and with 300 hours of footage being uploaded every minute, YouTube will need to be VERY picky on what they see as a big enough infringement and right holders will know this.

I know it sounds like it’ll be open season for the big companies once the article is passed, but as the Wired Article says, it’s going to be up to each country to enforce it individually with some having enough of a stringent set of copyright laws already in effect.

What I’m saying is, don’t give up calling your MEPs and asking for the wording to be reviewed but please don’t panic too much, we have a long, long way to go yet.

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