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25 <title>Reforming Copyright with the Shuttleworth Foundation</title>
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28 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
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33 <description><![CDATA[<p>From March 1, I am embarking on a new project. With the support of the Shuttleworth Foundation, I will be returning to my home town of Berlin to work full-time on advancing access to knowledge and culture through copyright reform. Read their announcement here or below.</p> <p>Many were disappointed after the European Parliament adopted the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2020/02/shuttleworth-foundation/">[...]</a>]]></description>
34 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From March 1, I am embarking on a new project. With the support of the Shuttleworth Foundation, I will be returning to my home town of Berlin to work full-time on advancing access to knowledge and culture through copyright reform. Read their announcement <a href="https://shuttleworthfoundation.org/thinking/2020/02/27/thinking-welcome-march2020-intake/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a> or below.</p>
35 <p>Many were disappointed after the European Parliament adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, but <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/not-in-vain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">our fight was not in vain</a>. I will be devoting the next years to defending all the safeguards and improvements we have achieved, in the national implementation and in court.</p>
36 <p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
37 <h1>Welcome Julia, Shannon and Nelson</h1>
38 <p>Welcome, Julia Reda, Shannon Dosemagen and Nelson Wasswa – the new cohort of Shuttleworth Fellows for our March 2020 intake.</p>
39 <p>Our Honorary Steward, Beth Simone Noveck, has selected three exceptional fellows from a highly compelling shortlist. We thank Beth for her work and input to our process and are delighted with the choices she has made.</p>
40 <p>Each new fellow holds openness at the heart of their ideas and is breaking new ground in their respective fields: Julia is working to make European copyright laws better-suited to the modern, open Internet; Shannon is improving interoperability of open environmental data, and Nelson is applying openness to freshwater pollution monitoring. These are areas of shared interest for our fellowship community, and there will be much to explore and learn over the coming months and years.</p>
41 <p>The Shuttleworth team and our wider community would like to offer Julia, Shannon and Nelson the best of luck and a warm welcome as they prepare to start their fellowship journeys on March 1st.</p>
42 <p>Honorary Steward, Beth Simone Noveck: <em>“In this day and age of increased political divisiveness and even despair, it was a tremendous joy and honor to read the applications of so many passionate and committed people, who are devoting their energies to improving the lives of others. They remind us that, when we work openly and collaboratively, every one of us can be powerful.”</em></p>
43 <p><em>“While picking three people to invest in was among the most difficult but pleasurable tasks I have undertaken, Shannon, Julia and Nelson are nothing short of extraordinary. This is not only because of their outstanding ideas but because they have a clear-sighted vision, and they demonstrated ‘sticktoitiveness’ to see these important projects through from idea to implementation and real impact.”</em></p>
44 <p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
45 <figure id="attachment_12003" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 300px"><a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/julia-reda.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-12003 size-medium" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/julia-reda-300x300.jpg" alt="Julia Reda. Photo cc-by Diana Levine / dianalevine.com" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/julia-reda.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/julia-reda-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><span class="wp-caption-text">Julia Reda. Photo cc-by Diana Levine / dianalevine.com</span></figure>
46 <p> </p>
47 <p><strong>Introducing:</strong> <a href="https://shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/julia-reda/">Julia Reda</a></p>
48 <p><strong>Background:</strong> A researcher, copyright reformer and former MEP.</p>
49 <p><strong>Idea:</strong> Repurpose copyright law to fit the digital age.</p>
50 <h1></h1>
51 <p> </p>
52 <h1 id="the-problem">The Problem</h1>
53 <p>It’s been almost a year since the European Union rubber-stamped its controversial <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/copyright">Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</a>. Division over the outcome still runs deep. The entertainment and publishing industries laud it as a natural extension of the copyright laws they helped establish and a ‘victory for creators’. The rest of us are gravely concerned that applying analogue rules to a digital world will drag us further towards censorship, erosion of privacy, and lockdown of the free and open web.</p>
54 <p>For the moment, thanks to last-minute changes introduced in reaction to public protests against the Directive, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. While the legislation contains worrying measures that continue the current trajectory of the Internet – towards restriction and automatic enforcement of overreaching laws – it also accommodates many progressive elements never seen in copyright legislation before. For the first time, the law is not entirely one-sided and premised on the “all rights reserved” model. And there is a significant opportunity to shape the future web, so open licenses gain stronger legal recognition and shared knowledge and culture can thrive.</p>
55 <h1 id="the-idea">The Idea</h1>
56 <p>As a Member of the European Parliament between 2014-19, <a href="https://juliareda.eu/en/">Julia Reda</a> fought to mitigate the worst aspects of the directive, part by part and word by word. Backed by growing public awareness and support from the open movement, she managed to place safeguards in the legislation as well as a swathe of new user rights. Now, Julia is ensuring those positive elements are put firmly into practice in her home country of Germany.</p>
57 <p><em>“The first step is to change the national copyright laws,” </em>she explains.<em> “The directive has some positive and novel ideas to protect the rights of users, but I feel if nobody’s going to fight for them, they will be ignored by national legislators. The second step is to actually encourage people to make use of their rights.</em></p>
58 <p><em>“I’m starting a project to offer practical support, absorb the legal risks, and help people unaffiliated with large publishing organisations who have to fend for themselves. This is a big problem in academic publishing. Researchers are not paid by publishers and told they are not allowed to reproduce their own words, even when the law says they are. Independent authors who share their creations online find their works blocked by overzealous upload filters. It’s in situations like these where I want to get active and support people to exercise their rights.”</em></p>
59 <h1 id="the-fellow">The Fellow</h1>
60 <p>Julia Reda: <em>“The law is a lot more flexible than we think. Big companies and publishers have the resources to access all the freedom the law gives them. I want users and individual authors to do that as well. I hope that more open access material becomes available, both research articles and parts of our cultural heritage.</em></p>
61 <p><em>“Openness is the goal, but also my methodology. These laws are generally accessible for anyone, but that doesn’t mean they are designed for people to understand them. A big part of what I do is explaining the complicated policy and legal processes to people in normal terms, educate them, and empower them to exercise their rights.”</em></p>
62 <h1 id="the-foundation">The Foundation</h1>
63 <p>Julia worked tirelessly and fearlessly as a one-issue MEP to limit much of the potential damage lurking in initial drafts of EU copyright legislation. She now has the opportunity to test her own ideas and seek precedents for the open movement that could shape the future web.</p>
64 <p>There are significant challenges ahead. We cannot predict how the law will be interpreted, and there is no doubt that the deep pockets of lobbyists will have opportunities to influence outcomes. It is time-critical, too: we have around 18 months before every country in the EU adopts the new directive. Julia’s ideas could define its effects.</p>
65 <p>Germany is the ideal testing ground for her work which, if successful, could expand its impact outwards to other EU and EFTA countries. Given the EU’s influence on global digital policy, there is a tremendous amount at stake here; not only for Germany and Europe but also for the rest of the world.</p>
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73 <title>France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights</title>
74 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/12/french_uploadfilter_law/</link>
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77 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
78 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
79 <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
80 <category><![CDATA[Article 17]]></category>
81 <category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
82 <category><![CDATA[upload filters]]></category>
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85 <description><![CDATA[<p>When the European Union adopted the new copyright directive, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member States time until June 2021 to introduce the new rules into their national copyright laws. France, the most fervent supporter of Article 17, apparently has no time to lose and just presented the new <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/12/french_uploadfilter_law/">[...]</a>]]></description>
86 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the European Union adopted the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new copyright directive</a>, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member States time until June 2021 to introduce the new rules into their national copyright laws. France, the most fervent supporter of Article 17, apparently has no time to lose and just presented the new draft law designed to transpose Article 17 and some other parts of the copyright directive.</p>
87 <p>France’s implementation proposal is important to follow wherever you are in the EU, because it likely marks the worst-case scenario of how Article 17 could unfold if rightsholders get their way. Given that the French government has been the mouthpiece of the entertainment industry throughout the negotiations, perhaps one should not be surprised that it tries to interpret the new rules in the way most favorable to rightsholders. After all, president Emmanuel Macron personally intervened with Angela Merkel to secure Germany’s support for Article 17 in clear breach of the German coalition government agreement.</p>
88 <p>Yet the audacity with which the proposed French law ignores the safeguards included in the EU copyright directive to protect user rights should be baffling even to the most cynical commentator. The proposal needs to be adopted by the French legislator, so there is still a chance to improve it, but given that <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/copyright-final-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the vast majority of French Members of the European Parliament</a> from different parties across the political spectrum voted for the EU directive, there is likely to be broad support for the national proposal as well.</p>
89 <h2>Cultural Sovereignty !?</h2>
90 <p>The new draft law on <a href="https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/content/download/16062/162304/version/1/file/plf_mice1927829L_cm_5.12.2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“audiovisual communication and cultural sovereignty in the digital age”</a> covers a number of different subjects aside from copyright law, including the protection of minors and the regulation of video streaming platforms like Netflix. The title of the proposed law gives a glimpse into the mindset of French legislators, presenting the enforcement of copyright laws in the interest of private entertainment companies as a matter of asserting France’s “cultural sovereignty”. It frames Article 17 as a means to support the European entertainment industry in its conflicts with American tech companies. Users’ interests are at best an afterthought in this struggle for “cultural sovereignty”.</p>
91 <p>This blog post examines the part of the proposal which implements Article 17 of the Directive on copyright in the digital single market (found on pages 28 to 34 of the <a href="https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/content/download/16062/162304/version/1/file/plf_mice1927829L_cm_5.12.2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">draft law</a>). That part is divided into four sections, dealing with platform definition, platform obligations, transparency and user rights. The last section is a bit of a misnomer, because it ignores the vast majority of user rights included in Article 17 of the EU copyright directive, which were introduced <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/not-in-vain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in response to the massive protests</a> against the potentially devastating effects of Article 17 on fundamental rights such as freedom of expression.</p>
92 <figure id="attachment_11383" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1024px"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-11383" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-1024x557.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="557" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-300x163.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-768x418.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-600x327.jpg 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy.jpg 1995w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><span class="wp-caption-text">Photo: (cc) by-nc-sa <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/timlueddemann">Tim Lüddemann</a> • Protester: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/emuo_star/">Emuolia Star</a></span></figure>
93 <h2>Platform Definition</h2>
94 <p>Despite assertions by supporters of Article 17 that the law is aimed at huge social media companies like YouTube and Facebook, the French proposal still tries to extend the new obligations to as many platforms as possible. The definition included in section 1 of the proposal is mostly identical to the definition included in the EU copyright directive, which has been criticized for being exceedingly vague. No effort is made to narrow down what is meant by unclear terms from the directive such as “large amounts” of copyrighted content uploaded to a platform. Instead, the French law provides that a decree should define what is considered a large amount.</p>
95 <p>There is, however, one important change: The definition does not just include platforms that profit directly from user uploads of copyrighted content, but also those that do so indirectly. That could include platforms whose business model is not based on giving access to user uploads of copyrighted content (for example by placing advertisements next to that content), but who nevertheless allow such uploads. One example could be the dating app Tinder, which is based on a freemium business model, where users can pay for extra functionality which gives their dating profiles greater visibility. These profits are clearly not directly derived from giving users access to copyright-protected content, yet without the possibility to upload copyrighted content (pictures), the app clearly would not function, so it could be argued that it derives its profits indirectly from organizing the uploaded pictures.</p>
96 <p>The EU directive does mention indirect profit in the recitals, which are not legally binding, but not in the legal definition. It seems that the French government cherry-picks from the recitals, ignoring the guidance that is supposed to narrow down the definition and only including the parts that widen it. For example, the clarification from the recitals that Article 17 should only apply to platforms that compete with licensed content streaming services for the same audiences (which would clearly exclude platforms like Tinder) is completely missing from the French law.</p>
97 <h2>Platform obligations</h2>
98 <p>The core of the proposal, section 2, is mostly identical to the provisions of the directive. Platforms that fall under the definition established in section 1 are directly liable for copyright infringements by their users, unless the platform can show that it did everything in its power to obtain a license from the rightsholder and to block unauthorized user uploads of copyrighted content identified to the platform by rightsholders. Lighter obligations exist for startups that are less than three years old, as described in the EU directive.</p>
99 <p>The French draft law clarifies that rightsholders should be completely free in deciding whether to give a license to a platform, shutting down any efforts such as those discussed in Germany to avoid upload filters by introducing some kind of mandatory licensing solution. Whenever a rightsholder decides not to offer a platform a license, it will therefore have to use upload filters. This is particularly interesting given that the German government announced that it would try to cooperate with other European countries to try to find a solution that doesn’t rely on upload filters. France, one of the largest EU Member States, is clearly not interested in such a solution.</p>
100 <p><a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-tdm.png"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6793" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-tdm.png" alt="" width="230" height="230" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-tdm.png 230w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-tdm-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px" /></a></p>
101 <h2>Transparency</h2>
102 <p>Section 3 includes some transparency obligations that platforms have towards rightsholders (not towards users, of course!) about the types of measures used to block unauthorized content. The main difference to the EU directive is that the French proposal makes it clear that platforms do not have to reveal any <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2016/04/trade-secrets-rules-open-the-door-to-abuse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">trade secrets</a> in order to comply with the transparency obligations. This addition could severely limit the chances of the public to inspect upload filters used by private companies for potential fundamental rights issues, as companies will declare the detailed functioning of their upload filters a trade secret. Apparently, the only thing that France loves more than giving authors to right to stop the flow of information is to give companies the right to stop the flow of information.</p>
103 <h2>User rights</h2>
104 <p>The only part of this section that’s faithful to the directive is the title. Remember when <a href="https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/https-medium-com-europeancommission-no-no-no-we-are-not-banning-memes-copyright-proposal-abf4d21f65d2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the European Commission claimed that your memes will be safe</a>? Memes would not be deleted, the Commission argued, because Article 17 makes the exceptions for parody, caricature, pastiche and quotation mandatory and clarifies that Member States have to make sure that users can benefit from these exceptions in practice. It also states that platforms cannot be forced to generally monitor all user uploads (which is necessary for any upload filter) and that legal uploads must not be deleted as a consequence of implementing Article 17.</p>
105 <p>Well, France “forgot” to mention all of that in its national proposal. The copyright exceptions under French law stay completely unchanged, although they are notoriously patchy and do not cover all situations that may arise on online platforms, such as quoting from a video. France also completely fails to ensure that users can benefit from these exceptions in practice when they upload something to a platform. Instead of ensuring that platforms do not override existing copyright exceptions in their terms and conditions, as the directive requires, the French proposal simply asks platforms to inform users about the existence of copyright exceptions under national law. The decisive parts of Article 17, which state that platforms must allow users to actually benefit from these exceptions, and that such legal content must not be blocked in the first place, are completely missing.</p>
106 <p>It’s clear from the creatively named “user rights” section of the draft law that copyrighted content gets blocked by default and users can only benefit from copyright exceptions if they complain after their content has already been blocked. Of course, getting your reaction gif or live stream unblocked a couple of days after the fact is completely useless, which explains why very few users ever make use of such complaint mechanisms where they exist. Under the French proposal, platforms have to offer a mechanism to deal with user complaints about blocked content (so the procedure is clearly “block first, ask questions later”).</p>
107 <p>Rightsholders, unlike what the directive says, do not have to justify their initial requests to block content, but only have to respond once a user challenges the blocking of one of their uploads. During this dispute resolution, the content stays blocked. This opens the door to copyfraud, where companies falsely claim to hold rights in other people’s creations, and the original author has to complain to have their own work unblocked. Although the directive says that all decisions by a platform to block content must be subject to human review, the French proposal only requires this in cases where a user complains after their content has already been blocked. <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/when-filters-fail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outrageous mistakes by fully automated upload filters</a> are likely to become a lot more common under this proposal.</p>
108 <p>To add insult to injury, when users or rightsholders want to complain about the result of the redress mechanism offered by the platform, they are supposed to turn to a new regulator called ARCOM, which is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">direct successor of HADOPI</a>, the organization best known for administering the infamous “three strikes” rule, which could block users from accessing the Internet if they repeatedly violated copyright law. This is hardly a regulator that is known for impartially weighing the competing interests of users and rightsholders.</p>
109 <h2>Copyright Fight: Round 2</h2>
110 <p>The French draft law confirms the worst fears of the EU copyright directive’s critics. The strictest version of the upload filter provision is proposed, while any safeguards that have been introduced to respond to the huge public protests are simply ignored. It’s hard to imagine that such a selective implementation of an EU directive would be accepted by the courts, but before it could come to a lawsuit, a lot of damage would already be done. Smaller countries often tend to copy the national implementations of EU law proposed by the larger countries, so there is a significant danger that France could set the standard for copyright enforcement in the entire EU. The European Commission should remind the French government of its obligation to implement the entire directive, not just the part that benefit large entertainment companies. With a French Commissioner in charge of copyright issues in the new European Commission, however, that is unlikely to happen.</p>
111 <p>It is therefore once again upon the users to raise the alarm bells on this most dangerous version of Article 17 yet! The French parliament can still stop this law from advancing as proposed. We must also pressure other European governments not to follow this terrible example and take user rights seriously.</p>
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121 <title>FOSSA and the EU’s Cybersecurity legislation</title>
122 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/07/fossa-cybersecurity/</link>
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124 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
125 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
126 <category><![CDATA[FOSSA]]></category>
127 <category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category>
128 <category><![CDATA[bug bounty]]></category>
129 <category><![CDATA[cyber]]></category>
130 <category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>
131 <category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
132 <category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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135 <description><![CDATA[<p>Now that my mandate in the European Parliament has come to an end, there is one important project that will still go on until the fall of this year: The European Free and Open Source Software Audit project – FOSSA for short – that was initialised in 2014, is coming to an end. After running <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/07/fossa-cybersecurity/">[...]</a>]]></description>
136 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that my mandate in the European Parliament has come to an end, there is one important project that will still go on until the fall of this year: The European Free and Open Source Software Audit project – <a href="https://juliareda.eu/fossa/">FOSSA</a> for short – that was <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2014/12/1-million-for-open-source-security/">initialised in 2014</a>, is coming to an end. After running for 2 years as a “pilot project”, and for 3 more years as a “preparatory action”, the next step to follow-up on the project is to establish its actions in European law.</p>
137 <figure id="attachment_11637" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 1024px"><a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-11637 size-large" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867-1024x683.jpg" alt="FOSSA Hackathon with the PHP Symphony project in Brussels, April 2019" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867-300x200.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867-768x512.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867-600x400.jpg 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867-480x320.jpg 480w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_9867.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><span class="wp-caption-text">FOSSA Hackathon with the PHP Symphony project in Brussels, April 2019<br />Photo: EU-FOSSA project team</span></figure>
138 <p><a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/future-cybersecurity-europe/"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-10819" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cybersecurity-centre-report-cybercyber-216x300.png" alt="" width="216" height="300" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cybersecurity-centre-report-cybercyber-216x300.png 216w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cybersecurity-centre-report-cybercyber-768x1067.png 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cybersecurity-centre-report-cybercyber-737x1024.png 737w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cybersecurity-centre-report-cybercyber-600x834.png 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cybersecurity-centre-report-cybercyber.png 1366w" sizes="(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px" /></a>In April, the <a href="https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1118544137228378112">Parliament adopted my report</a> on the Regulation <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/future-cybersecurity-europe/">establishing the Cybersecurity Centre</a>, with a huge majority. The <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2019-0419_EN.html">Parliament position on the Cybersecurity Centre</a> makes explicit reference to the successful FOSSA project, and establishes the promotion of the <em>Security by Design</em> principle, including contributing to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) by financing security audits, where the software is “commonly used for infrastructure, products and processes”.</p>
139 <p>The realisation that FOSS is the basis for our common, every-day infrastructure – the Internet, is what drove the FOSSA project in the first place.</p>
140 <figure id="attachment_11638" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 209px"><a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172.png"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-11638 size-medium" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172-209x300.png" alt="" width="209" height="300" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172-209x300.png 209w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172-768x1101.png 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172-714x1024.png 714w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172-600x860.png 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs-e1562246458172.png 1328w" sizes="(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" /></a><span class="wp-caption-text">Letter by FOSSA MEPs</span></figure>
141 <p>So consequently, after the adoption of the report, my colleagues Marietje Schaake, Max Andersson and I sent a letter to the Commission, urging it <em>to make a concrete proposal for the continuation and permanent financing of FOSSA</em>. You can <a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-03_FOSSA-letter-MEPs.pdf">download and read our letter (PDF)</a>.</p>
142 <figure id="attachment_11639" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 212px"><a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel.pdf"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-11639" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel-212x300.png" alt="" width="212" height="300" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel-212x300.png 212w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel-768x1088.png 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel-723x1024.png 723w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel-600x850.png 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel.png 1348w" sizes="(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" /></a><span class="wp-caption-text">Reply from Commissioner Gabriel</span></figure>
143 <p>By the end of May, we received a <a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-05-22__Reply-to-MEPs-Letter-Commissioner-Gabriel.pdf">reply from the Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel (PDF)</a>, outlining that FOSSA has been exemplary for ongoing and future Commission action, such as the Open Source Strategy that is currently being updated, and the Cybersecurity Centre that is to be established.</p>
144 <h3>What’s next?</h3>
145 <p>The European Parliament, the Member States represented by the Council, and the Commission will pick the discussions on the Cybersecurity Centre back up later this year, probably as early as the new Commissioners start working.</p>
146 <h3>What can I do?</h3>
147 <blockquote class="pull right"><p>Free and Open Source Software is the basis of the Internet. The EU needs to contribute to its security in the interest of all of us!<a class="tweetthis" href="#" data-tweet="Free Software is the basis of the Internet. The EU needs to contribute to its security in the interest of all of us! #FOSSA #Cybersecurity" onclick="javascript:return tweet(this);"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>Tweet this!</a></blockquote>
148 <p>In order to make sure that the FOSSA project and its results are properly reflected in the actions of the Cybersecurity Centre, the two legislators (Parliament and Council) have to agree on the law establishing the Centre. You can ask your elected representatives in the European Parliament to back up the Parliament’s great current position and to not give in. You can also ask your governments to make sure the Council supports the Parliament’s demands in the negotiations. And obviously, you can always be vocal about how FOSS is great for all of us!</p>
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157 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/not-in-vain/</link>
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159 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
160 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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164 <description><![CDATA[<p>For years, my colleagues in the European Parliament and I worked on the EU copyright reform – on improving the Commission’s original proposal, but above all, on preventing the worst. More than 5,000,000 signatures made the petition against Article 13 the biggest in EU history. Many activists invested their time and passion into the fight. <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/not-in-vain/">[...]</a>]]></description>
165 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For years, my colleagues in the European Parliament and I worked on the <strong><a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/">EU copyright reform</a></strong> – on improving the Commission’s original proposal, but above all, on preventing the worst. More than 5,000,000 signatures made the <a href="http://change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">petition against Article 13</a> the biggest in EU history. Many activists invested their time and passion into the fight. By taking to the streets, 200,000 protesters ensured that our concerns became impossible to ignore.</p>
166 <p>And yet despite all that, the reform passed: Upload filters and the “link tax” are coming. What remains of our efforts?</p>
167 <figure id="attachment_11383" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1024px"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-11383" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-1024x557.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="557" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-300x163.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-768x418.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy-600x327.jpg 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/demo_tim_lueddemann_emuo_star4-copy.jpg 1995w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><span class="wp-caption-text">Photo: (cc) by-nc-sa <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/timlueddemann">Tim Lüddemann</a> • Protester: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/emuo_star/">Emuolia Star</a></span></figure>
168 <h2>Protest achievements</h2>
169 <p>Because the interests of civil society were neglected in the legislative process, the people of Europe had no choice but to make themselves heard with e-mails, petitions and protests – and that’s what they did.</p>
170 <p>In July 2018, the movement secured its first victory: <strong>MEPs denied rubber-stamping the position of the responsible committee</strong>, which is usually just a formality. Instead, they demanded improvements – clearly impressed by the amount of public interest. At that time, the petition was just closing in on 1 million signatures.</p>
171 <p>Unfortunately, MEPs subsequently fell for <strong>dirty tricks</strong>: Axel Voss presented a text as a “compromise” in which he had only cosmetically removed references to upload filters, while still requiring them. At the same time, the pro lobby successfully spread the rumour that the protest was merely staged by big US corporations: The birth of the infamous legend of the “bots”. These tricks were so successful that the Parliament <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2018/09/ep-pro-uploadfilter-leistungsschutzrecht/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">green-lighted</a> the barely changed text in September.</p>
172 <p>Between September 2018 and March 2019, the protest movement managed to reduce the approval of the law among MEPs by almost 10 percentage points (from 62% to 53%). This late in the legislative process, this is remarkable. In the end, we came only a <strong>few votes short</strong> of holding another vote on striking Article 13 from the Directive. Though we kept our hopes up, making such a radical change at the last possible moment would have been unprecedented.</p>
173 <p><strong><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/artikel-13-und-uploadfilter-zehntausende-protestieren-gegen-urheberrechtsreform-a-1259360.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Massive streets protests</a></strong>, especially in Germany, succeeded in making a topic as arcane as copyright law an issue that was hotly debated everywhere from schoolyards to the highest levels of politics. Many creatives – who we were told were supposed to benefit from Article 13 – instead applied their skills to fighting it, creating <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=artikel13+song" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">protest songs</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=art13grafiken" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">graphics</a>.</p>
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177 <img width="212" height="300" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0FVILNWwAAYOIm-212x300.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" loading="lazy" link="none" size="medium" ids="11404,11403,11402" orderby="post__in" include="11404,11403,11402" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0FVILNWwAAYOIm-212x300.jpg 212w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0FVILNWwAAYOIm-768x1086.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0FVILNWwAAYOIm-724x1024.jpg 724w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0FVILNWwAAYOIm-600x848.jpg 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0FVILNWwAAYOIm.jpg 848w" sizes="(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" />
178 <img width="212" height="300" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0CyLcwW0AAXSiZ-212x300.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" loading="lazy" link="none" size="medium" ids="11404,11403,11402" orderby="post__in" include="11404,11403,11402" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0CyLcwW0AAXSiZ-212x300.jpg 212w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0CyLcwW0AAXSiZ.jpg 724w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D0CyLcwW0AAXSiZ-600x849.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" />
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180 <p>A novel alliance of digital rights NGOs, political parties and social media personalities succeeded in politicising and mobilising an entire <strong>generation of digital natives</strong>. Countless people rose to new challenges: Entertainment YouTubers suddenly found themselves in the role of reporters or political commentators, internet users became activists and organisers, and many participated in the first protests of their lives. These experiences will leave a lasting impact.</p>
181 <p>The protest was <strong>so effective</strong> that it compelled both parties in the German government to declare that they would at least mitigate some of the problems in the national implementation of the law. A misguided idea for a Directive that was intended to establish a “digital single market” – that is, to harmonize national laws. Nevertheless, it’s an admission of how well-founded our criticisms were, and an affirmation of how far we have come: Thanks of our efforts, nobody can afford to take political responsibility for upload filters any longer. The initial arrogance of conservative MEPs has been replaced by sheepish concessions – or lip service, at least.</p>
182 <p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
183 <h2>Improvements to the text</h2>
184 <p>In the negotiations in Parliament, my team and I were able to make progress on a number of issues:</p>
185 <ol class="countdown">
186 <li><strong>Fewer upload filters</strong>: We managed to restrict the infamous <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Article 17</a> (formerly 13) to for-profit platforms: This was not the case in the Parliament version of July 2018. The restriction to services which <em>“play an important role on the online content market by competing with other online content services, such as online audio and video streaming services, for the same audiences” </em>was also our doing, even though it unfortunately only made it into a recital, rather than the article itself.</li>
187 <li><strong>Fair remuneration:</strong> Even though the text didn’t end up banning so-called “total buyout contracts”, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Article 18</a> does establish fair remuneration of artists as a fundamental principle for the first time at the EU level. The Commission had had no such plans. In doing so, the Directive meets <a href="https://juliareda.eu/copyright-evaluation-report-explained/#authors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">one of the demands from my 2014 copyright report</a>.</li>
188 <li><strong>Publisher/label transparency:</strong> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Article 19</a> requires transparency from distributors, such as publishers and labels, towards the creatives whose works they exploit. In <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Informal meetings attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission'>trilogue</abbr> we managed to ensure that this doesn’t only happen on demand, but in the form of regular reports.</li>
189 <li><strong>What is free must remain so:</strong> The Directive clarifies in <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//DE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Article 14</a> that the mere digitization of a work whose copyright has already expired can not fall under copyright anew. This allows platforms such as Wikipedia to publish photos of older artworks without having to worry about licensing. This stems from an amendment I filed, and was already proposed in the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/copyright-evaluation-report-explained/#publicdomain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reda Report</a>.</li>
190 <li><strong>Out-of-commerce works available:</strong> Cultural institutions like museums and libraries across Europe will be allowed to put works online which are no longer commercially available, independent of their copyright status (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Article 8</a>). In the negotiations, we were able to remove several restrictions to this right that the Commission had been planning.</li>
191 <li><strong>Minimum standards rather than leveling down:</strong> For all new copyright exceptions and limitations that the Directive establishes at the EU level, the principle will apply that member states which already have further-reaching exceptions in national law may keep them. This provision (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN">Article 25</a>) was inserted at our request at the last moment, in trilogue.</li>
192 <li><strong>Parody allowed everywhere:</strong> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2019-0231+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Article 17, paragraph 7</a> states that uploaders must be able to rely on a copyright exception for caricature and parody in every member state. Since such an exception doesn’t yet exist everywhere, this fulfills the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/copyright -evaluation-report-explained/#parody" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demand from the Reda Report</a> to make it mandatory across Europe.</li>
193 </ol>
194 <p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
195 <h2>Moving forward</h2>
196 <p>Member states now have two years to implement the reform <strong>into national law</strong>. The wording of the Directive does leave some leeway – for example, in the specific interpretation of what constitutes a <em>“large amount”</em> of user uploads, and thus how many platforms fall under the scope of Article 17 (formerly 13).</p>
197 <p>The publishers’ lobby will without doubt advocate for the strictest possible interpretations of the Directive – civil society must resist, and we must do this in all member states. So please stay involved – or at least <strong>support NGOs</strong> like <a href="http://edri.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EDRi</a> and <a href="http://epicenter.works" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Epicenter.works</a>, who will continue lobbying for our rights. <a href="https://savetheinternet.info" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SaveTheInternet.info</a>, the activists who started the petition, have also announced that they will keep working on the subject.</p>
198 <p>Meanwhile, <strong>we will keep pushing for real copyright reform</strong>: After all, this “reform” still leaves copyright law fragmented across Europe and in dire need of an update. The demands loudly expressed by thousands of users <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2014/08/the-european-copyright-divide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in the consultation from 2013</a> remain unfulfilled. For one, we still urgently need a copyright exception for today’s <strong>internet and remix culture</strong>. Our efforts must continue.</p>
199 <p><strong>My message to all who took part in this movement:</strong> Be proud of how far we came together! We’ve proven that organised citizens can make an impact – even if we didn’t manage to kill the whole bill in the end. So don’t despair! Stay politically active, and definitely go vote in the <a href="https://european-elections.eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European elections at the end of May</a>!</p>
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207 <title>Will the EU Parliament uphold or reject “terror filters” on April 17?</title>
208 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/reject-terror-filters/</link>
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212 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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216 <description><![CDATA[<p>The controversial EU regulation on terrorist content online is making its way through the European Parliament close to the end of the mandate – traditionally a time MEPs face an extreme amount of pressure to pass laws that may have otherwise received more time and attention.</p> <p>On Monday, April 8, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/reject-terror-filters/">[...]</a>]]></description>
217 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <strong>controversial EU regulation on terrorist content online</strong> is making its way through the European Parliament close to the end of the mandate – traditionally a time MEPs face an extreme amount of pressure to pass laws that may have otherwise received more time and attention.</p>
218 <p>On Monday, April 8, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Civil Liberties and Justice Committee of the European Parliament'>LIBE</abbr>) Committee adopted its position on the regulation, which I <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/terrorist-upload-filters/">last reported on</a> in February. While the Committee made some <strong>important improvements</strong>, the plenary will have to defend them against attempts by the largest group in the European Parliament, the conservative <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='European People’s Party (Conservatives)'>EPP</abbr>, to <strong>undo those changes in the upcoming vote on Wednesday, April 17.</strong><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10905" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-01-at-10.37.15.png" alt="" width="1998" height="1050" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-01-at-10.37.15.png 1998w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-01-at-10.37.15-300x158.png 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-01-at-10.37.15-768x404.png 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-01-at-10.37.15-1024x538.png 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot-2019-02-01-at-10.37.15-600x315.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px" /></p>
219 <h3>Improvement: No forced upload filters</h3>
220 <p>We managed to <strong>push back on upload filters</strong>, which are included in the Commission proposal in Article 6. The text adopted by the LIBE Committee makes explicit that the state authorities who can order platforms to remove material they consider terrorist content cannot impose obligations on web hosts to monitor uploads, nor to use automated tools for that matter.</p>
221 <p>Instead, the text calls for “specific measures” that hosts can take in order to protect their services (see <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2019-0193_EN.pdf?redirect">Article 6</a>). These measures can range from increasing human resources to protect their service to exchanging best practices (see <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2019-0193_EN.pdf?redirect">Recital 16</a>). But regardless of the measure chosen, hosts must pay <strong>particular attention to users’ fundamental rights</strong>. This clarification is a major victory, considering that the introduction of upload filters seems to be the main objective of the European Commission proposal.</p>
222 <p>The EPP is against this change and has <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2019-0193-AM-168-177_EN.pdf">tabled amendments</a> that would re-introduce the possibility for authorities to force platforms to use upload filters. The plenary must <strong>reject the EPP’s pro-upload filter amendment 175 </strong>and<strong> adopt the LIBE position against upload filters (Amendments 84 to 89)</strong>!</p>
223 <h3>Improvement: No arbitrary standards for deletion</h3>
224 <p>In addition to having to act on removal orders, platforms were to receive “referrals” of content that may or may not be considered terrorist content, which they could then voluntarily assess not by standards of law, but their self-set arbitrary terms of service (see <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2019-0193_EN.pdf?redirect">Article 5</a>). Rightfully, the LIBE Committee realised that this would set a <strong>dangerous precedent for the privatisation of law enforcement</strong> and deleted the provision. While platforms will still undoubtedly make mistakes when removing content, they will at least have to judge by <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017L0541&from=EN">definitions of illegal terrorist content</a> the EU set two years ago.</p>
225 <p>The EPP group has tabled amendments to try to re-introduce Article 5. On Wednesday, we will have to make sure that <strong>Article 5 stays deleted</strong>!</p>
226 <h3>Filters through the back door?</h3>
227 <p>Unfortunately, the unreasonable Commission proposal that <strong>illegal terrorist content must be taken down within one hour</strong> remains the default in the report adopted by the LIBE committee (see <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2019-0193_EN.pdf?redirect">Article 4</a>). The only exception to this rule is for the very first time a website owner receives a removal order from an authority, in which case they get 12 hours to familiarise themselves with the procedure and applicable deadlines. Afterward, regardless of platform size or resources, they must react within one hour in order to avoid harsh penalties. These penalties may amount to 4% of a platform’s turnover in case of persistent infringements (see <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2019-0193_EN.pdf?redirect">Article 18</a>).</p>
228 <p>A one-hour deadline is completely <strong>unworkable for platforms run by individuals or small providers</strong>, who have no capacities to hire staff tasked with handling potential removal orders 24/7. No private website owner can be expected to stay reachable over night and during weekends in the unlikely event that somebody uploads terrorist material. Their only realistic option available would be the automation of removals: <strong>Terrorism filters through the back door.</strong></p>
229 <p>Blindly deleting or blocking flagged content without review is <strong>bound to lead to the deletion of legal uploads</strong>, such as a news report on terrorism that shows footage from a war zone, which may indeed be illegal in another context. Already today, there are plenty of examples of overzealous administrative authorities <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/">flagging perfectly legal material as terrorist content</a> (Note: Unlike the title of that post suggests, these notices didn’t come from an EU agency, but a French national authority). Thus it’s imperative that websites of all sizes have the necessary time to review reports.</p>
230 <p>A joint attempt by the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Greens/European Free Alliance'>Greens/EFA</abbr> and <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='United European Left/Nordic Green Left'>GUE</abbr> groups to give providers more time to react was rejected by the LIBE Committee. Amendments by Greens/EFA, GUE and the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Socialists and Democrats (Progressives)'>S&D</abbr> group will be put to the vote on Wednesday once more to try to<strong> get rid of the unworkable one hour deadline.</strong></p>
231 <h3>What’s next and what you can do</h3>
232 <p>The European Parliament will vote on its position on the terrorism regulation this week on <strong>Wednesday, 17 April. </strong>After this position is adopted, the next European Parliament will start <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Informal meetings attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission'>trilogue</abbr> negotiations with the Council, which has already rubber-stamped the Commission proposal, including mandatory upload filters.</p>
233 <p><strong>Call your MEPs</strong> (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home">consult the list here</a>) and ask them:</p>
234 <ol class="countdown">
235 <li>Support the amendments proposed by Greens/EFA (Amendment 157), S&D (Amendment 160) and GUE (Amendment 164) to delete the strict one hour deadline.</li>
236 <li>Don’t support amendments which would undo the wins for a free internet by re-introducing upload filters or referrals!</li>
237 </ol>
238 <p>Due to the incredible pressure to pass this legislation before the European Parliament election, not even a debate on the proposal is planned. Time pressure is no reason to pass a law that has fundamental flaws and would be a threat to our fundamental rights online!</p>
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248 <title>How your MEPs voted on internet freedoms – and why your minister of agriculture will have the final say on April 15</title>
249 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/copyright-final-vote/</link>
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251 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
252 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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256 <description><![CDATA[<p>After the European Parliament adopted the Copyright Directive last week without even considering changes, one final step remains: Its approval by the Council of Ministers.</p> Last chance to stop upload filters <p>The Council vote is now scheduled for Monday, April 15. That day’s meeting happens to be the Agriculture and Fisheries Council – so it <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/copyright-final-vote/">[...]</a>]]></description>
257 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the European Parliament adopted the Copyright Directive last week without even considering changes, one final step remains: Its <strong>approval by the Council of Ministers</strong>.</p>
258 <figure id="attachment_11342" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1024px"><img loading="lazy" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/protestkids-1024x518.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="518" class="size-large wp-image-11342" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/protestkids-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/protestkids-300x152.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/protestkids-768x389.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/protestkids-600x304.jpg 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/protestkids.jpg 1998w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><span class="wp-caption-text">(cc) by-nc <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgubi/40492547043/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Gubi</a></span></figure>
259 <h2>Last chance to stop upload filters</h2>
260 <p>The Council vote is now <strong>scheduled for <a href="https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXVI/EU/05/98/EU_59873/imfname_10891324.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monday, April 15</a></strong>. That day’s meeting happens to be the <em>Agriculture and Fisheries Council</em> – so it will be the member states’ ministers of agriculture who will seal the deal on upload filters and the “link tax”.</p>
261 <p>A rejection on that day would be the <strong>final chance to make improvements</strong> to the Directive: If a big member state like Germany or the UK joined the opposition against it, negotiations would need to resume after the EU elections in May.</p>
262 <h3>Germany remains the best chance</h3>
263 <p>In Germany, the fact that 200,000 people took to the streets in protest hasn’t changed the government’s plans to vote for the law – but it did cause both coalition parties to try their hardest to <strong>deny responsibility</strong>:</p>
264 <p>Minister of Justice Katarina Barley (SPD) has <a href="https://twitter.com/katarinabarley/status/1109416434927570944" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> she wants to “prevent upload filters“, <a href="https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Barley-zur-EU-Copyright-Reform-Es-laeuft-auf-Upload-Filter-hinaus-4329480.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">determined</a> that Article 17 would lead to them and <a href="https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/artikel-13-warum-die-eu-agrarminister-das-letzte-wort-bei-der-urheberrechtsreform-haben/24169430.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">expressed regret</a> at the outcome of the Parliament’s vote – and yet, she acts as if her hands are bound.</p>
265 <p>The CDU meanwhile tried to placate protesters by <a href="https://www.cdu.de/artikel/kompromiss-zum-urheberrecht-keine-uploadfilter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">committing</a> to implementing the law without upload filters – only to have their own EU Commissioner, who initiated the project in the first place, state right after the vote that <a href="https://www.politico.eu/pro/gunther-oettinger-eu-copyright-rules-interview/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this would be impossible</a>.</p>
266 <p>At the request of the opposition, the German Parliament <a href="https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2019/kw14-de-urheberrechtsrichtlinie-632802" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">will consider demanding that the government vote against the Directive in Council</a> later tonight.</p>
267 <p>Keeping up public pressure in Germany remains our best chance to stop the Directive. <strong>Another round of protests</strong> has already been announced for multiple cities this Saturday, April 6 – <a href="https://savetheinternet.info/demos?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">see SaveTheInternet.info for a list</a>.</p>
268 <h3>Other countries</h3>
269 <p>In the <strong>United Kingdom</strong>, Conservative politician Boris Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1110812485081333760" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">has called</a> the Copyright Directive “terrible for the internet”, claiming it was a “classic EU law” that the UK should not implement. Of course, he neglected to mention that 15 out of 19 of his party’s MEPs just voted in favour of it, and that the UK government could by itself still stop the project in Council. Helping the Directive pass and then blaming the EU for their own mistakes: That’s Brexit in a nutshell.</p>
270 <p>In <strong>Sweden</strong>, where most MEPs voted against the law, efforts are underway in the national Parliament to force the government to <a href="https://emanuelkarlsten.se/04/riksdagen-planerar-kuppa-regeringen-vill-tvinga-ministern-att-rosta-nej-till-artikel-13/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vote against the Directive in Council</a> – while Sweden alone will not make the difference, this is an important sign that things can still change.</p>
271 <p>In February, the Directive was opposed by Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Finland. There’s a <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/voting-calculator/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">voting calculator tool on the Council website</a>.</p>
272 <p><center>* * *</center></p>
273 <h2>How the Parliament vote broke down</h2>
274 <p>You can <a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/?noredirect=true" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">check how your country’s MEPs voted on SaveYourInternet.eu</a>. Pledge2019 has also published <a href="https://pledge2019.eu/en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">whether MEPs who pledged to vote against Article 13 actually did</a>. Here’s the aggregate data by country and political group:</p>
275 <style type="text/css">table.votes tr td { overflow: hidden; padding: 0; border-bottom: 0; } table.votes tr td div { float: left; height:1.3em; } table.votes .yes { background: #40b450; } table.votes .abstain { background: #fbb04c; } table.votes .no { background: #bd2132; } table.votes .absent { background: #ccc; }</style>
276 <h3>By Country</h3>
277 <form> <label style="float:right">Sort by <select onchange="table_resort('votesbycountry', this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)"><option value="name" selected="selected">Country name</option><option value="yes">Yes %</option><option value="no">No %</option></select></label> Scale: <label> <input type="radio" name="scale" value="prop" onchange="table_rescale('votesbycountry', this.value)" checked="checked" /> percent</label><label> <input type="radio" name="scale" value="abs" onchange="table_rescale('votesbycountry', this.value, (100/96))" /> seats</label> </form>
278 <table id="votesbycountry" class="votes" width="100%">
279 <tbody>
280 <tr>
281 <td width="300"><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/at/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Austria</a></td>
282 <td width="100%">
283 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="5" data-percent="28" style="width:28%"></div>
284 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="3" data-percent="17" style="width:17%"></div>
285 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="8" data-percent="44" style="width:44%"></div>
286 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="2" data-percent="11" style="width:11%"></div>
287 </td>
288 </tr>
289 <tr>
290 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/be/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Belgium</a></td>
291 <td>
292 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="14" data-percent="67" style="width:67%"></div>
293 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
294 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="7" data-percent="33" style="width:33%"></div>
295 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
296 </td>
297 </tr>
298 <tr>
299 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/bg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bulgaria</a></td>
300 <td>
301 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="8" data-percent="47" style="width:47%"></div>
302 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="4" data-percent="24" style="width:24%"></div>
303 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="5" data-percent="29" style="width:29%"></div>
304 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
305 </td>
306 </tr>
307 <tr>
308 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/hr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Croatia</a></td>
309 <td>
310 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="5" data-percent="46" style="width:46%"></div>
311 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="9" style="width:9%"></div>
312 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="4" data-percent="36" style="width:36%"></div>
313 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="1" data-percent="9" style="width:9%"></div>
314 </td>
315 </tr>
316 <tr>
317 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/cy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cyprus</a></td>
318 <td>
319 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
320 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
321 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="1" data-percent="17" style="width:17%"></div>
322 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="5" data-percent="83" style="width:83%"></div>
323 </td>
324 </tr>
325 <tr>
326 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/cz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Czechia</a></td>
327 <td>
328 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="2" data-percent="9" style="width:9%"></div>
329 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="5" data-percent="24" style="width:24%"></div>
330 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="13" data-percent="62" style="width:62%"></div>
331 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="1" data-percent="5" style="width:5%"></div>
332 </td>
333 </tr>
334 <tr>
335 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/dk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Denmark</a></td>
336 <td>
337 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="10" data-percent="77" style="width:77%"></div>
338 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
339 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="2" data-percent="15" style="width:15%"></div>
340 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="1" data-percent="8" style="width:8%"></div>
341 </td>
342 </tr>
343 <tr>
344 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/ee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Estonia</a></td>
345 <td>
346 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="1" data-percent="17" style="width:17%"></div>
347 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="17" style="width:17%"></div>
348 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="4" data-percent="66" style="width:66%"></div>
349 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
350 </td>
351 </tr>
352 <tr>
353 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/fi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Finland</a></td>
354 <td>
355 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="9" data-percent="69" style="width:69%"></div>
356 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
357 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="4" data-percent="31" style="width:31%"></div>
358 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
359 </td>
360 </tr>
361 <tr>
362 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">France</a></td>
363 <td>
364 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="62" data-percent="84" style="width:84%"></div>
365 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="4" data-percent="5" style="width:5%"></div>
366 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="2" data-percent="3" style="width:3%"></div>
367 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="6" data-percent="8" style="width:8%"></div>
368 </td>
369 </tr>
370 <tr>
371 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Germany</a></td>
372 <td>
373 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="36" data-percent="38" style="width:38%"></div>
374 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="3" data-percent="3" style="width:3%"></div>
375 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="51" data-percent="53" style="width:53%"></div>
376 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="6" data-percent="6" style="width:6%"></div>
377 </td>
378 </tr>
379 <tr>
380 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/gr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Greece</a></td>
381 <td>
382 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="7" data-percent="33" style="width:33%"></div>
383 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="5" style="width:5%"></div>
384 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="2" data-percent="10" style="width:10%"></div>
385 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="11" data-percent="52" style="width:52%"></div>
386 </td>
387 </tr>
388 <tr>
389 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/hu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hungary</a></td>
390 <td>
391 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="9" data-percent="43" style="width:43%"></div>
392 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
393 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="5" data-percent="24" style="width:24%"></div>
394 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="7" data-percent="33" style="width:33%"></div>
395 </td>
396 </tr>
397 <tr>
398 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/ie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ireland</a></td>
399 <td>
400 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="4" data-percent="36" style="width:36%"></div>
401 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
402 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="4" data-percent="36" style="width:36%"></div>
403 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="3" data-percent="28" style="width:28%"></div>
404 </td>
405 </tr>
406 <tr>
407 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Italy</a></td>
408 <td>
409 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="39" data-percent="54" style="width:54%"></div>
410 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="1" style="width:1%"></div>
411 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="27" data-percent="37" style="width:37%"></div>
412 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="6" data-percent="8" style="width:8%"></div>
413 </td>
414 </tr>
415 <tr>
416 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/lv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Latvia</a></td>
417 <td>
418 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="5" data-percent="63" style="width:63%"></div>
419 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
420 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="3" data-percent="37" style="width:37%"></div>
421 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
422 </td>
423 </tr>
424 <tr>
425 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/lt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lithuania</a></td>
426 <td>
427 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="6" data-percent="55" style="width:55%"></div>
428 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
429 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="2" data-percent="18" style="width:18%"></div>
430 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="3" data-percent="27" style="width:27%"></div>
431 </td>
432 </tr>
433 <tr>
434 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/lu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Luxembourg</a></td>
435 <td>
436 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
437 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
438 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="6" data-percent="100" style="width:100%"></div>
439 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
440 </td>
441 </tr>
442 <tr>
443 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/mt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Malta</a></td>
444 <td>
445 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="4" data-percent="67" style="width:67%"></div>
446 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
447 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="2" data-percent="33" style="width:33%"></div>
448 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
449 </td>
450 </tr>
451 <tr>
452 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Netherlands</a> </td>
453 <td>
454 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="5" data-percent="19" style="width:19%"></div>
455 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="2" data-percent="8" style="width:8%"></div>
456 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="18" data-percent="69" style="width:69%"></div>
457 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="1" data-percent="4" style="width:4%"></div>
458 </td>
459 </tr>
460 <tr>
461 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/pl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Poland</a></td>
462 <td>
463 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="7" data-percent="14" style="width:14%"></div>
464 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="3" data-percent="6" style="width:6%"></div>
465 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="33" data-percent="65" style="width:65%"></div>
466 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="8" data-percent="15" style="width:15%"></div>
467 </td>
468 </tr>
469 <tr>
470 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/pt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portugal</a></td>
471 <td>
472 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="14" data-percent="67" style="width:67%"></div>
473 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
474 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="6" data-percent="28" style="width:28%"></div>
475 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="1" data-percent="5" style="width:5%"></div>
476 </td>
477 </tr>
478 <tr>
479 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/ro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Romania</a></td>
480 <td>
481 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="8" data-percent="25" style="width:25%"></div>
482 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="6" data-percent="19" style="width:19%"></div>
483 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="8" data-percent="25" style="width:25%"></div>
484 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="10" data-percent="31" style="width:31%"></div>
485 </td>
486 </tr>
487 <tr>
488 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/sk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slovakia</a></td>
489 <td>
490 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="8" data-percent="61" style="width:61%"></div>
491 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="8" style="width:8%"></div>
492 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="4" data-percent="31" style="width:31%"></div>
493 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
494 </td>
495 </tr>
496 <tr>
497 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/si/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slovenia</a></td>
498 <td>
499 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="3" data-percent="37" style="width:37%"></div>
500 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
501 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="5" data-percent="63" style="width:63%"></div>
502 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
503 </td>
504 </tr>
505 <tr>
506 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spain</a></td>
507 <td>
508 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="33" data-percent="61" style="width:61%"></div>
509 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="2" style="width:2%"></div>
510 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="13" data-percent="24" style="width:24%"></div>
511 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="7" data-percent="13" style="width:13%"></div>
512 </td>
513 </tr>
514 <tr>
515 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/se/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sweden</a></td>
516 <td>
517 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="3" data-percent="15" style="width:15%"></div>
518 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
519 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="15" data-percent="75" style="width:75%"></div>
520 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="2" data-percent="10" style="width:10%"></div>
521 </td>
522 </tr>
523 <tr>
524 <td><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UK</a></td>
525 <td>
526 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="31" data-percent="43" style="width:43%"></div>
527 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="0" data-percent="0" style="width:0%"></div>
528 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="30" data-percent="42" style="width:42%"></div>
529 <div title="absent" class="absent" data-votes="11" data-percent="15" style="width:15%"></div>
530 </td>
531 </tr>
532 </tbody>
533 </table>
534 <h3>By Political Group</h3>
535 <form> <label style="float:right">Sort by <select onchange="table_resort('votesbygroup', this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)"><option value="yes" selected="selected">Yes %</option><option value="no">No %</option></select></label> Scale: <label> <input type="radio" name="scale" value="prop" onchange="table_rescale('votesbygroup', this.value)" checked="checked" /> percent</label><label> <input type="radio" name="scale" value="abs" onchange="table_rescale('votesbygroup', this.value, (100/194))" /> seats</label> </form>
536 <table id="votesbygroup" class="votes" width="100%">
537 <tbody>
538 <tr>
539 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='European People’s Party (Conservatives)'>EPP</abbr></td>
540 <td width="100%">
541 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="153" data-percent="79" style="width:79%"></div>
542 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="13" data-percent="7" style="width:7%"></div>
543 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="28" data-percent="14" style="width:14%"></div>
544 </td>
545 </tr>
546 <tr>
547 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Socialists and Democrats (Progressives)'>S&D</abbr></td>
548 <td width="100%">
549 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="99" data-percent="62" style="width:62%"></div>
550 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="6" data-percent="4" style="width:4%"></div>
551 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="54" data-percent="34" style="width:34%"></div>
552 </td>
553 </tr>
554 <tr>
555 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Liberals)'>ALDE</abbr></td>
556 <td width="100%">
557 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="36" data-percent="56" style="width:56%"></div>
558 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="3" data-percent="5" style="width:5%"></div>
559 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="25" data-percent="39" style="width:39%"></div>
560 </td>
561 </tr>
562 <tr>
563 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Europe of Nations and Freedom (Extreme Right)'>ENF</abbr></td>
564 <td width="100%">
565 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="15" data-percent="47" style="width:47%"></div>
566 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="3" data-percent="9" style="width:9%"></div>
567 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="14" data-percent="44" style="width:44%"></div>
568 </td>
569 </tr>
570 <tr>
571 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='European Conservatives and Reformers (Eurosceptic Conservatives)'>ECR</abbr></td>
572 <td width="100%">
573 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="23" data-percent="34" style="width:34%"></div>
574 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="2" data-percent="3" style="width:3%"></div>
575 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="42" data-percent="63" style="width:63%"></div>
576 </td>
577 </tr>
578 <tr>
579 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (Eurosceptic Populists)'>EFDD</abbr></td>
580 <td width="100%">
581 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="6" data-percent="17" style="width:17%"></div>
582 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="1" data-percent="3" style="width:3%"></div>
583 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="28" data-percent="80" style="width:80%"></div>
584 </td>
585 </tr>
586 <tr>
587 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='United European Left/Nordic Green Left (Left)'>GUE/NGL</abbr></td>
588 <td width="100%">
589 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="5" data-percent="12" style="width:12%"></div>
590 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="3" data-percent="7" style="width:7%"></div>
591 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="35" data-percent="81" style="width:81%"></div>
592 </td>
593 </tr>
594 <tr>
595 <td width="300"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Greens/European Free Alliance'>Greens/EFA</abbr> </td>
596 <td width="100%">
597 <div title="yes" class="yes" data-votes="4" data-percent="8.5" style="width:8.5%"></div>
598 <div title="abstain" class="abstain" data-votes="4" data-percent="8.5" style="width:8.5%"></div>
599 <div title="no" class="no" data-votes="39" data-percent="83" style="width:83%"></div>
600 </td>
601 </tr>
602 </tbody>
603 </table>
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611 <title>Tomorrow’s copyright vote explained</title>
612 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/03/copyright-vote-explained/</link>
613 <comments>https://juliareda.eu/2019/03/copyright-vote-explained/#comments</comments>
614
615 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
616 <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
617 <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
618 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://juliareda.eu/?p=11228</guid>
619
620 <description><![CDATA[<p>There is unprecedented public opposition against Article 13 and other aspects of the EU Copyright Directive: This weekend, up to 200.000 people took to the streets across Europe. Meanwhile, the petition against it has reached the incredible milestone of 5 million signatures. Will the European Parliament listen?</p> <p>(Scrollable panorama photo from the Berlin protest)</p> <p>Tuesday, <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/03/copyright-vote-explained/">[...]</a>]]></description>
621 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is <strong>unprecedented public opposition against Article 13</strong> and other aspects of the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EU Copyright Directive</a>: This weekend, up to 200.000 people <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/eu-copyright-bill-protests-across-europe-highlight-rifts-over-reform-plans/a-48037133" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">took to the streets across Europe</a>. Meanwhile, the petition against it has reached the incredible milestone of <a href="http://change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">5 million signatures</a>. Will the European Parliament listen?</p>
622
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635 <center><small class="description">(Scrollable panorama photo from the Berlin protest)</small></center></p>
636 <p><strong>Tuesday, March 26 around 13:00 CET</strong> is the moment of truth: All 751 Members of the European Parliament will vote on the law. The vote will be <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">streamed live</a>.</p>
637 <p>Here’s what will be voted on specifically:</p>
638 <h2>1. Reject the entire law?</h2>
639 <ul>
640 <li>Vote on the most far-reaching proposed change: The <strong>rejection of the entire Copyright Directive</strong> (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-262-268_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amendment 266</a>, <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (Eurosceptic Populists)'>EFDD</abbr> group)</li>
641 </ul>
642 <p>If a majority of those present is in favour, there will be no copyright reform. This is highly unlikely.</p>
643 <h2>2. Allow changes?</h2>
644 <p>An MEP will request to hold votes on specific proposed changes (amendments) to the law, giving a short speech explaining why this should be done. Axel Voss will speak on why it shouldn’t.</p>
645 <ul>
646 <li><strong>Vote on whether to allow votes on changes</strong></li>
647 </ul>
648 <p>If a majority is in favour, proceed to #3<br />
649 Else proceed to #4B</p>
650 <h2>3. Votes on changes</h2>
651 <ul>
652 <li>Vote to approve the parts of the law that nobody requested to change – likely to pass</li>
653 </ul>
654 <p>Then MEPs will vote on proposals for changes:</p>
655 <h3>I. Article 11 – the “link tax”</h3>
656 <ul>
657 <li><strong>Delete Article 11?</strong> (Amendments <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-262-268_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">267</a>+<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-269-270_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">270</a> filed by/on behalf of 108 MEPs)</li>
658 <li>Otherwise: <strong>Keep Article 11 as is?</strong></li>
659 </ul>
660 <p>(In the unlikely event that neither of the options receive support, Article 11 is reverted to the Commission’s original proposal from 2016.)</p>
661 <h3>II. Article 13 – upload filters</h3>
662 <ul>
663 <li><strong>Delete Article 13?</strong> (Amendments <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-253-257_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">257</a>+<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-262-268_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">265+268</a>+<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-269-270_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">269</a> filed by/on behalf of 205 MEPs)</li>
664 <li>Otherwise: <strong>Keep Article 13 as is?</strong></li>
665 <li>Otherwise: New wording for Article 13 (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-258-261_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amendment 260</a>, <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='United European Left/Nordic Green Left'>GUE</abbr> group) – unlikely to pass</li>
666 </ul>
667 <p>(In the unlikely event that none of the options receive support, Article 13 is reverted to the Commission’s original proposal from 2016.)</p>
668 <h3>III. Other changes</h3>
669 <ul>
670 <li>Insert an article on ”non-retroactivity” and various new recitals (explanatory remarks)? (Amendments <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-253-257_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">253-256</a> + <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-258-261_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">258 + 259 + 261</a>, GUE group) – not coordinated with other groups and thus very unlikely to pass.</li>
671 <li>Clean up: Delete recitals relating to Article 13? (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-262-268_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amendments 262-264</a>, several <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Socialists and Democrats (Progressives)'>S&D</abbr> MEPs)</li>
672 </ul>
673 <h2>4. Adopt the law</h2>
674 <p><strong>If the above votes changed the text</strong> (anything but “keep as is” got a majority):</p>
675 <h3>A. Adopt the changed law</h3>
676 <ul>
677 <li>At this point, Axel Voss could request a vote to <strong>send the text back to the Legal Affairs Committee</strong> so he can try again to negotiate in <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Informal meetings attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission'>trilogue</abbr> a text that has majority support</li>
678 <li>Otherwise: <strong>Vote on whether to adopt the law with the changes just made.</strong> The law will then be sent to the Council (representing the EU member state governments), which will have two choices: Accept the Parliament’s changes and thus automatically pass the law, or reject them and thus continue negotiations.</li>
679 <li>Otherwise: Vote on the original Commission text from 2016 – very unlikely</li>
680 </ul>
681 <p>If further negotiations are needed, they would need to take place <strong>after the European elections in May</strong> – it’s hard to predict the outcome, since the responsible Commissioner as well as the majorities in the Parliament will change.</p>
682 <p><strong>If, however, the Parliament voted not to allow changes, or the votes on changes ended up not actually modifying the law</strong> (the “keep as is” options won and no other proposals were adopted):</p>
683 <h3>B. Adopt the law unchanged</h3>
684 <ul>
685 <li><strong>Vote to adopt the law unchanged</strong> (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-271-271_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amendment 271</a>, <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament'>JURI</abbr> Committee)</li>
686 <li>Finally, there will be a vote to officially take note of a statement by the Commission that it will look into new rights for sports event organisers (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-272-272_EN.pdf?redirect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amendment 272</a>, Voss/JURI Committee) – the Parliament <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2018/09/copyright-sports-fans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">had proposed adding such a right</a> to the Copyright Directive, but it was subsequently dropped in trilogue.</li>
687 </ul>
688 <p>The final remaining step is then for the<strong> Council to adopt the law as well,</strong> which is likely to take place on April 9. However, Germany, whose Minister of Justice has <a href="https://twitter.com/katarinabarley/status/1109416434927570944" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">come out in opposition of upload filters</a>, could still retract its support, which would make a majority unlikely and thus also lead to further negotiations after the EU elections in May.</p>
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699 <title>The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised</title>
700 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/</link>
701 <comments>https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/#comments</comments>
702
703 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
704 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
705 <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
706 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://juliareda.eu/?p=11045</guid>
707
708 <description><![CDATA[<p>In the evening of February 13, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council concluded the trilogue negotiations with a final text for the new EU Copyright Directive.</p> <p>For two years we’ve debated different drafts and versions of the controversial Articles 11 and 13. Now, there is no more ambiguity: This law will fundamentally change the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/">[...]</a>]]></description>
709 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the evening of February 13, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council concluded the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Informal meetings attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission'>trilogue</abbr> negotiations with a <strong>final text</strong> for the new EU Copyright Directive.</p>
710 <p>For two years we’ve debated different drafts and versions of the controversial Articles 11 and 13. Now, there is no more ambiguity: This law will fundamentally change the internet as we know it – if it is adopted in the upcoming final vote. <strong>But we can still prevent that!</strong></p>
711 <p>Read on for details about the text, how we got here and what to do now:</p>
712 <figure id="attachment_11046" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1024px"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-11046 size-large" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-final-1024x581.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="581" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-final-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-final-300x170.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-final-768x436.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-final-600x340.jpg 600w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-final.jpg 1276w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><span class="wp-caption-text">Closed-door trilogue negotiations have concluded.</span></figure>
713 <h2>What’s in the EU Copyright Directive</h2>
714 <p>Please click the links to take a look at the final wording of <a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art_11_unofficial.pdf">Article 11</a>, <a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art_13_unofficial.pdf">Article 13</a>, and for the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.pdf">whole text</a>. Here’s my summary:</p>
715 <h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-6799" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-uploadmonitoring.png" alt="" width="170" height="170" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-uploadmonitoring.png 230w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-uploadmonitoring-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px" />Article 13: Upload filters</h3>
716 <p>Parliament negotiator Axel Voss accepted the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal between France and Germany I laid out in a recent blog post</a>:</p>
717 <ul>
718 <li>Commercial sites and apps where users can post material must make “best efforts” to preemptively <strong>buy licences for anything that users may possibly upload</strong> – that is: all copyrighted content in the world. An impossible feat.</li>
719 <li>In addition, all but very few sites (those both tiny and very new) will need to do everything in their power to prevent anything from ever going online that may be an unauthorised copy of a work that a rightsholder has registered with the platform. They will have no choice but to deploy <strong>upload filters</strong>, which are by their nature both expensive and <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/when-filters-fail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">error-prone</a>.</li>
720 <li>Should a court ever find their licensing or filtering efforts not fierce enough, sites are <strong>directly liable for infringements</strong> as if they had committed them themselves. This massive threat will lead platforms to over-comply with these rules to stay on the safe side, further worsening the impact on our freedom of speech.</li>
721 </ul>
722 <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-6798" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-extracopyright.png" alt="Article 11" width="170" height="170" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-extracopyright.png 230w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-extracopyright-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px" /></p>
723 <h3>Article 11: The “link tax”</h3>
724 <p>The final version of this <a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for-news-sites/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extra copyright for news sites</a> closely resembles the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2018/01/copyright-bulgarian-presidency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">version that already failed in Germany</a> – only this time not limited to search engines and news aggregators, meaning it will do damage to a lot more websites.</p>
725 <ul>
726 <li><strong>Reproducing more than “single words or very short extracts” of news stories will require a licence.</strong> That will likely cover many of the snippets commonly shown alongside links today in order to give you an idea of what they lead to. We will have to wait and see how courts interpret what “very short” means in practice – until then, hyperlinking (with snippets) will be mired in legal uncertainty.</li>
727 <li><strong>No exceptions</strong> are made even for services run by individuals, small companies or non-profits, which probably includes any monetised blogs or websites.</li>
728 </ul>
729 <h3>Other provisions</h3>
730 <p>The project to allow Europeans to conduct <strong>Text and Data Mining</strong>, crucial for modern research and the development of artificial intelligence, has been obstructed with too many caveats and requirements. Rightholders can opt out of having their works datamined by anyone except research organisations.</p>
731 <p><strong>Authors’ rights:</strong> The Parliament’s proposal that authors should have a right to proportionate remuneration has been severely watered down: Total buy-out contracts will continue to be the norm.</p>
732 <p>Minor improvements for access to <strong>cultural heritage</strong>: Libraries will be able to publish out-of-commerce works online and museums will no longer be able to claim copyright on photographs of centuries-old paintings.</p>
733 <p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
734 <h2>How we got here</h2>
735 <figure id="attachment_5787" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 960px"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-5787 size-full" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/oettinger-copyright.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="540" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/oettinger-copyright.jpg 960w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/oettinger-copyright-300x169.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/oettinger-copyright-768x432.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/oettinger-copyright-600x338.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><span class="wp-caption-text">Former digital Commissioner Oettinger proposed the law</span></figure>
736 <p>The history of this law is a shameful one. <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2016/08/copyright-reform-another-acta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From the very beginning</a>, the purpose of Articles 11 and 13 was never to solve clearly-defined issues in copyright law with well-assessed measures, but to <strong>serve powerful special interests</strong>, with hardly any concern for the collateral damage caused.</p>
737 <p>In the <strong>relentless pursuit of this goal</strong>, concerns by <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/04/experts-slam-eu-copyright-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independent academics</a>, <a href="https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/delete-article-thirteen-open-letter/13194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundamental rights defenders</a>, <a href="http://mediapublishers.eu/our-views/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independent publishers</a>, <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/04/copyright-reform-kills-eu-startups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">startups</a> and many others were ignored. At times, <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/12/extra-news-copyright-confusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confusion was spread about crystal-clear contrary evidence</a>. Parliament negotiator Axel Voss defamed the unprecedented <a href="http://change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest of millions of internet users</a> as “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwj-hDvJWM8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">built on lies</a>”.</p>
738 <p>In his conservative <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='European People’s Party (Conservatives)'>EPP</abbr> group, the driving force behind this law, <strong>dissenters were marginalised</strong>. The work of their initially-appointed representative <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/new-lead-mep-could-shift-talks-on-contentious-copyright-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was thrown out</a> after the conclusions she reached were too sensible. Mr Voss then voted so blindly in favour of any and all restrictive measures that he was <a href="https://qz.com/1389385/article-11-and-article-13-axel-voss-is-surprised-by-eu-copyright-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caught by surprise</a> by some of the nonsense he had gotten approved. His party, the German CDU/CSU, nonchalantly violated the coalition agreement they had signed (which rejected upload filters), paying no mind to their own <a href="https://twitter.com/DoroBaer/status/1095330255236063235" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minister for digital issues</a>.</p>
739 <p>It took efforts equally herculean and sisyphean <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pi6e5GLaQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">across party lines</a> to prevent the text from turning out even worse than it now is.</p>
740 <p>In the end, a <strong>closed-door horse trade between France and Germany</strong> was enough to outweigh the objections… so far.</p>
741 <p>What’s important to note, though: <strong>It’s not “the EU” in general that is to blame</strong> – but those who put special interests above fundamental rights who currently hold considerable power. You can change that at the polls! The anti-EU far right is trying to seize this opportunity to promote their narrow-minded nationalist agenda – when in fact without the persistent support of the far-right <em><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Europe of Nations and Freedom (Extreme Right)'>ENF</abbr> Group</em> (dominated by the <em>Rassemblement/Front National</em>) the law <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/not-giving-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could have been stopped</a> in the crucial Legal Affairs Committee and in general would not be as extreme as it is today.</p>
742 <p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
743 <h2>We can still stop this law</h2>
744 <blockquote class="pull right" style="width: 37%;"><p>Our best chance to stop the EU copyright law: The upcoming Parliament vote.<br />
745 <a class="tweetthis" href="#" data-tweet="We have one more chance to #SaveYourInternet and stop #Article13: The upcoming vote in @Europarl_EN. Get informed!" onclick="javascript:return tweet(this);"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>Tweet this!</a></blockquote>
746 <p>The Parliament and Council negotiators who agreed on the final text now return to their institutions seeking approval of the result. <strong>If it passes both votes unchanged, it becomes EU law</strong>, which member states are forced to implement into national law.</p>
747 <p><strong>In both bodies, there is resistance.</strong></p>
748 <p>The Parliament’s process starts with the approval by the Legal Affairs Committee – which is likely to be given on Monday, February 18.</p>
749 <p>Next, at a date to be announced, the <strong>EU member state governments will vote in the Council.</strong> The law can be stopped here either by 13 member state governments or by any number of governments who together represent 35% of the EU population (<a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/voting-calculator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calculator</a>). Last time, 8 countries representing 27% of the population were opposed. Either a large country like Germany or several small ones would need to change their minds: This is the less likely way to stop it.</p>
750 <p><em class="highlight">Our best bet: The <strong>final vote in the plenary of the European Parliament</strong></em>, when all 751 MEPs, directly elected to represent the people, have a vote. This will take place either between March 25 and 28, on April 4 or between April 15 and 18. We’ve already <a href="https://www.technollama.co.uk/what-can-the-copyright-directive-vote-tell-us-about-the-state-of-digital-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demonstrated last July</a> that a majority against a bad copyright proposal<strong> is achievable</strong>.</p>
751 <p>The plenary can vote to <strong>kill the bill – or to make changes</strong>, like removing Articles 11 and 13. In the latter case, it’s up to the Council to decide whether to accept these changes (the Directive then becomes law without these articles) or to shelve the project until after the EU elections in May, which will reshuffle all the cards.</p>
752 <h2>This is where you come in</h2>
753 <p>The final Parliament vote will happen <strong>mere weeks before the EU elections</strong>. Most MEPs – and certainly all parties – are going to be seeking reelection. Articles 11 and 13 will be defeated if enough voters make these issues relevant to the campaigns. (<a href="https://www.european-elections.eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here’s how to vote in the EU elections</a> – change the language to one of your country’s official ones for specific information)</p>
754 <p>It is up to you to make clear to your representatives: <strong>Their vote on whether to break the internet with Articles 11 and 13 will make or break your vote in the EU elections.</strong> Be insistent – but please always stay polite.</p>
755 <ul>
756 <li><strong>Look up your representatives’ voting behavior</strong> at <a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SaveYourInternet.eu</a></li>
757 <li><strong>Call or visit</strong> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">your MEPs’</a> offices (in Brussels, Strasbourg or their local constituency)</li>
758 <li><strong>Visit campaign and party events</strong> and bring up the topic</li>
759 <li><a href="http://change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Sign the record-breaking petition</strong></a> and spread the word, if you haven’t yet</li>
760 </ul>
761 <p>Together, we can still stop this law.</p>
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771 <title>Council ready to continue negotiations on the worst version of Article 13 yet</title>
772 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/council-worst-article-13/</link>
773 <comments>https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/council-worst-article-13/#comments</comments>
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775 <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Reda]]></dc:creator>
776 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
777 <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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780 <description><![CDATA[<p>Tonight, the EU’s national governments adopted as their common position the deal struck by France and Germany on the controversial EU Copyright Directive that was leaked earlier this week.</p> <p>While Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Luxembourg maintained their opposition to the text and were newly joined by Malta and Slovakia, Germany’s support of the “compromise” <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/council-worst-article-13/">[...]</a>]]></description>
781 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>T<img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-6799" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-uploadmonitoring.png" alt="" width="164" height="164" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-uploadmonitoring.png 230w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/copyright-icon-uploadmonitoring-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px" />onight, the <strong>EU’s national governments adopted as their common position the deal struck by France and Germany on the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">controversial EU Copyright Directive</a></strong> that was <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/">leaked earlier this week</a>.</p>
782 <p>While Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Luxembourg <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/copyright-hits_wall/">maintained their opposition to the text</a> and were newly joined by Malta and Slovakia, <strong>Germany’s support of the “compromise” secretly negotiated with France over the last weeks has broken the previous deadlock</strong>.</p>
783 <p>This new Council position is actually more extreme than previous versions, requiring all platforms older than 3 years to automatically censor all their users’ uploads, and putting unreasonable burdens even on the newest companies (see my <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/">previous blog post analysing the deal</a>).</p>
784 <p>The <strong>German Conservative–Social Democrat government is now in blatant violation of its own coalition agreement</strong>, which rejects upload filters against copyright infringement as disproportionate. This breach of coalition promises will not go down well with many young voters just ahead of the European elections in May. Meanwhile, prominent members of both German government parties have joined the protests against upload filters.</p>
785 <p>The deal in Council paves the way for a final round of negotiations with the Parliament over the course of next week, before the entire European Parliament and the Council vote on the final agreement.<strong> It is now up to you to contact your MEPs, call their offices in their constituencies and visit as many of their election campaign events as you can!</strong> Ask them to reject a copyright deal that will violate your rights to share legal creations like parodies and reviews online, and includes measures like the link tax that will limit your access to the news and drive small online newspapers out of business.</p>
786 <p>Right before the European elections, your voices cannot be ignored! Join the over 4.6 million signatories to <a href="https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet">the largest European petition ever</a> and tell your representatives:<strong> If you break the Internet and accept Article 13, we won’t reelect you!</strong></p>
787 <blockquote class="big"><p>If you break the internet and enact Article 13, we won’t reelect you.<a class="tweetthis" href="#" data-tweet="Dear @Europarl_EN MEPs: If you break the internet and enact #Article13, we won’t reelect you. #SaveYourInternet" onclick="javascript:return tweet(this);"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>Tweet this!</a></blockquote>
788 <p><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-10975 alignright" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hashtagBIG-2.png" alt="" width="268" height="48" /></a><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/27a1.png" alt="➡" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> You can <a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quickly and easily email your MEPs using this tool at SaveYourInternet.eu</a>.</p>
789 <p><a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10927" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded.jpg" alt="" width="1276" height="724" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded.jpg 1276w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-300x170.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-768x436.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-600x340.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px" /></a></p>
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799 <title>Article 13 is back on – and it got worse, not better</title>
800 <link>https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/</link>
801 <comments>https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/#comments</comments>
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804 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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808 <description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s recall: On January 18, negotiations about the new EU copyright law came to an abrupt halt after member state governments failed to settle on a common position on Article 13, which would force internet platforms to censor their users’ posts using upload filters.</p> <p>Without such an agreement, the final “trilogue” meeting, at which the law <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/">[...]</a>]]></description>
809 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s recall: On January 18, <strong>negotiations about the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new EU copyright law</a> came to an <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/copyright-hits_wall/">abrupt halt</a> </strong>after member state governments failed to settle on a common position on Article 13, which would force internet platforms to censor their users’ posts using upload filters.</p>
810 <p>Without such an agreement, the final “<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Informal meetings attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission'>trilogue</abbr>” meeting, at which the law was supposed to be finalised together with representatives of the European Parliament, had to be called off – and time was running out, with EU elections that will reshuffle all the cards looming in May.</p>
811 <p>Contrary to some reports, though, <strong>Article 13 was not shelved because a majority of EU governments have come to understand that upload filters are costly, <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/when-filters-fail/">error-prone</a> and threaten fundamental rights.</strong></p>
812 <p>Without doubt, the unprecedented <strong><a href="http://change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet">public opposition</a></strong> contributed to 11 member state governments voting against proceeding, up from just 6 last year. Still, there remained a <strong>majority in favour of Article 13 in general</strong> – just disagreement about details. This has now been resolved, and the process of enacting the law is back in motion – read on below.<a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10927" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded.jpg" alt="" width="1276" height="724" srcset="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded.jpg 1276w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-300x170.jpg 300w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-768x436.jpg 768w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/copyright-keyhole-eu-reloaded-600x340.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px" /></a>An agreement required <strong>a compromise between France and Germany</strong>, who due to their size can make or break a majority. <strong>Both support upload filters –</strong> they just couldn’t agree on exactly who should be forced to install them:</p>
813 <h4><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f1eb-1f1f7.png" alt="🇫🇷" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> France’s position:</h4>
814 <p>Article 13 is great and must apply to <strong>all platforms, regardless of size</strong>. They must demonstrate that they have done all they possibly could to prevent uploads of copyrighted material. In the case of small businesses, that may or may not mean using upload filters – ultimately, a court would have to make that call.<br />
815 (This was previously the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2018/10/copyright-trilogue-positions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">majority position among EU governments</a>, before Italy’s newly elected government retracted their support for Article 13 altogether.)</p>
816 <h4><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f1e9-1f1ea.png" alt="🇩🇪" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> Germany’s position:</h4>
817 <p>Article 13 is great, but it <strong>should not apply to everyone</strong>. Companies with a turnover below €20 million per year should be excluded outright, so as not to harm European internet startups and SMEs.<br />
818 (This was closer to the <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2018/10/copyright-trilogue-positions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Parliament’s current position</a>, which calls for the exclusion of companies with a turnover below €10 million and fewer than 50 employees.)</p>
819 <h2>What brought them together: Making Article 13 even worse</h2>
820 <p>In the <a href="https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Mandate-Romania-February-8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Franco-German deal [PDF]</a>, which leaked today, Article 13 does apply to all for-profit platforms.<strong> Upload filters must be installed by everyone</strong> except those services which fit all three of the following extremely narrow criteria:</p>
821 <ol class="countdown" start="1">
822 <li><em>Available to the public for less than 3 years</em></li>
823 <li><em>Annual turnover below €10 million</em></li>
824 <li><em>Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors</em></li>
825 </ol>
826 <p>Countless apps and sites that do not meet all these criteria would need to install upload filters, burdening their users and operators, even when copyright infringement is not at all currently a problem for them. Some examples:</p>
827 <div style="border: 2px solid #87ceeb; padding: .01em .7em;">
828 <h4 style="color: #77bedb;">Upload filters required</h4>
829 <ul>
830 <li style="margin-bottom: .5em;">Discussion boards on commercial sites, such as the <strong><i>Ars Technica</i></strong> or <strong><i>Heise.de</i> forums</strong> (older than 3 years)</li>
831 <li style="margin-bottom: .5em;"><strong><i>Patreon</i></strong>, a platform with the sole purpose of helping authors get paid (fails to meet any of the three criteria)</li>
832 <li style="margin-bottom: .5em;">Niche social networks like <strong><i>GetReeled</i></strong>, a platform for anglers (well below 5 million users, but older than 3 years)</li>
833 <li>Small European competitors to larger US brands like <strong><em>Wykop</em></strong>, a Polish news sharing platform similar to <em>Reddit</em> (well below €10 million turnover, but may reach 5 million visitors and is older than 3 years)</li>
834 </ul>
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836 <p>On top of that, even the smallest and newest platforms, which do meet all three criteria, must still demonstrate they have undertaken <strong>“best efforts”</strong><strong> to obtain licenses</strong> from rightholders such as record labels, book publishers and stock photo databases for anything their users might possibly post or upload – an impossible task. In practice, all sites and apps where users may share content will likely be <strong>forced to accept any </strong><strong>license a rightholder offers them</strong>, no matter how bad the terms, and no matter whether they actually want that rightholder’s copyrighted material to be available on their platform, to avoid the massive legal risk of coming in conflict with Article 13.</p>
837 <p><strong>In summary:</strong></p>
838 <ul>
839 <li>France’s and Germany’s compromise on Article 13 still calls for nearly everything we post or share online to require<strong> prior permission by “<a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/censorship-machines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censorship machines</a>”, </strong>algorithms that are fundamentally unable to distinguish between copyright infringement and legal works such as parody and critique.</li>
840 <li>It would change the web from a place where we can express ourselves (with some moderation applied after-the-fact on platforms) into one where <strong>big corporate rightholders are the gatekeepers of what can and can’t be published in the first place.</strong> It would allow these rightholders to bully any commercial site or app that includes a posting function.</li>
841 <li>European <strong>innovation on the web would be discouraged</strong> by the new costs and legal risks for startups – even if they only apply when platforms turn 3 years old, or achieve some success. Foreign sites and apps who can’t afford armies of lawyers would be incentivised to just <strong>geoblock all EU-based users</strong> to be on the safe side.</li>
842 </ul>
843 <h2>Now everything hinges on the European Parliament</h2>
844 <p>With this road block out of the way, the <strong>trilogue negotiations to finish the new copyright law are back on. </strong>With no time to lose, there will be massive pressure to reach an overall agreement within the next few days and pass the law in March or April.</p>
845 <p>Most likely, Germany’s and France’s compromise will be rubber-stamped by the Council on Friday, 8 February, and then a <strong>final trilogue negotiation will take place with the Parliament on Monday, 11 February.</strong></p>
846 <p><strong>MEPs, most of whom are fighting for reelection, will get one final say.</strong> Last September, a narrow majority for Article 13 could only be found in the Parliament after a small business exception was included that was much stronger than the foul deal France and Germany are now proposing – but there’s unfortunately no reason to believe that Parliament negotiator Axel Voss will stand his ground and insist on this point in trialogue. Instead, it will come down to the final vote in the plenary in March or April, where all MEPs have a say.</p>
847 <p>Whether MEPs will reject this harmful version of Article 13 (like they initially did last July) or bow to the pressure will depend on whether all of us make clear to them:</p>
848 <blockquote class="big"><p>If you break the internet and enact Article 13, we won’t reelect you.<a class="tweetthis" href="#" data-tweet="Dear @Europarl_EN MEPs: If you break the internet and enact #Article13, we won’t reelect you. #SaveYourInternet" onclick="javascript:return tweet(this);"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>Tweet this!</a></blockquote>
849 <p><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-10975 alignright" src="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hashtagBIG-2.png" alt="" width="268" height="48" /></a><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/27a1.png" alt="➡" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> You can <a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quickly and easily email your MEPs using this tool at SaveYourInternet.eu</a>.</p>
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