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Infos about Article 13 and European copyright law from a Member of European Parliament

Listened to a very interesting podcast, that has an interview with the German Member of European Parliament Tiemo Wölken about the new European copyright (sadly in German). He was against article 13 and 16 and explains and gives insight to what is intended with the law, what might happen in the worst case, why people still voted for it, what happens next, and most of all what we can do.

Some things from it:

Article 13 will come. There will be upload filters. There’s no way for the parliament to stop it now. You have the European Council and the European Parliament. Both discuss now about the new copyright, but they can only change stuff, where they both disagree. Both approved of Article 13 though, so they can’t change that any longer.

Don’t message your MP any longer. They can’t do anything now. Message your government. The European governments are the only ones, who can stop it now.

The new law is clearly intended for Facebook and Google. It only applies to companies with more than 50 employees. And it clearly applies to platforms, not private persons. For us this means if Tumblr has more than 50 employees, we’re fucked. If not it wouldn’t apply.

The MPs that are for the law really think that upload filter don’t need to happen, because they didn’t say they have to. They think there’s another technical solution that can only filter the stuff that is copyrighted, but will still allow stuff that is clearly a meme or art or satire based on it. (Hint. There isn’t and there can’t be.)

The German MPs that voted for it, did so, because the law entails good laws for small artists that sell their copyright, among other things. Article 14-16 allows them to re-negotiate if the new copyright holder basically duped them. For example a writer writes something that becomes a bestseller, then they can re-negotiate to get more. Or a company doesn’t use the copyright, so the original artists doesn’t get anything, then they can claim their copyright back.

If the law happens you can’t cite anything any longer. Nothing. Writing headlines from newsarticles will be forbidden in the worst case. Google uses the headlines for their search and you can see those and a few summarising words. Based on that you decide if you click a link (and give money to the newssite/publishers) or not. Publishers want to get paid for that from google/facebook. He thinks that is bollocks, because if you go to a news agent you can read the headlines and decide if you want to buy or not. Same should apply to the internet, but now they make you pay to read the headlines. The publishers try to get money for stuff that they never got money for. 

He thinks there should be some fair use and that the law simply isn’t fit in the way it was drafted.

What happens now: European council and European parliament negotiate their different positions (as they agree on article 13, they don’t negotiate that at all.) By the end of the year/early next year they’ll probably have a combined position. Then the parliament will vote again if they agree with the changes made. (From his position they will definitely do so. It’s only a technicality.) Then (and that’s the only point where we still might have influence) all 27 member states have to agree on it. So that’s why you have to message your national government! 

THIS POST WOULDN’T BE POSSIBLE WITH THE NEW COPYRIGHT LAW AS I SUMMARISE COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL AND SHARE THE CONTENT ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT HAVING PAID THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

#article 13 #european copyright law #if you understand german listen to the orignal podcast #because he explains everything really well #and the people that interview him are youtubers #that ask the important questions