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EU Copyright Directive - Save Your Internet!

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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The EU Copyright Directive coming down the pipe could destroy the internet as you know it with a profound effect on both news and creativity.

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I have been asked by some to do a video on the proposed EU directive for copyright in the Digital Single Market. But I have a couple of twists on the usual to throw into the mix.

Now some people will say that we are leaving the EU so we can just kick this one into touch and ignore it. The problem is that whether we are in or out of the EU we will have to deal with it if we want to trade with the EU.

Right now the the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, you know the one that caused all those please re-sign up to my mailing list E-Mails, is causing havoc not just within the EU but around the world with anyone who wants to have any dealings with the European Union.

And it will be the same with this new copyright directive.

But first a reminder.

Apart from the treaties themselves there are two main ways of getting EU law through.

One is by making it an EU regulation, which is what the General Data Protection Regulation is (the clue is in the title) and these are binding, apply automatically and uniformly to all EU countries with no need for national laws to be passed.

The second is by making it a Directive, which requires countries to then write national laws in their own way in order to achieve the specific outcome the directive requires.

And this is where things get a little interesting. And why - because of the misleading way our politicians deal with them and I thought I'd use the new copyright directive proposal to show you what I mean.

But first I have to point out that there are bucketloads of very informed commentators out there that have severe misgivings about this directive, especially Articles 11 and 13. And there are also numerous reports about extreme political arm-twisting being applied to get it through.

Under Article 11, news outlets will be able to charge people to link to them. So, the likes Google and Facebook for example would have to pay licensing fees to all the newspapers, TV and Radio stations around the world in order to provide links to the news, those links that you put there when you post stuff. And if you run a small blog and comment on the news, you will have to pay as well when you link.

But, and this is a big but, who decides who the news outlets are that can charge? Who will decide which newspaper is on the official list - will it be government or a quango set up to deal with it? The dangers to freedom of speech of that are obvious. And will there be a fee to appear on the list and what will you have to sign up to?

And will the search engines then place those official sites at the very top of all the news rankings with the smaller players who pay the link fees underneath them? And will those that commentate without being on the list or not linking to the big official boys be penalised as 'fake news' and sandboxed?

In fact this has been tried before in Spain and it failed dismally, so why the push now for it to be rolled out across the whole EU?

Sources:

http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8672-2018-INIT/en/pdf

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/european-copyright-law-isnt-great-it-could-soon-get-lot-worse

https://www.saveyourinternet.eu

https://juliareda.eu/en/

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/05/25/copyright-rules-for-the-digital-environment-council-agrees-its-position/

https://www.bond.org.uk/data/files/Blog/ConservativeManifesto2015.pdf

https://action.labour.org.uk/page/-/A4%20BIG%20_PRINT_ENG_LABOUR%20MANIFESTO_TEXT%20LAYOUT.pdf

https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/labour-manifesto-2017.pdf

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