Please Write (Yes, Again - Sorry) to Your MEPs to Stop the EU Copyright Directive from Seriously Harming the Internet
Back in June, I wrote a long post about the proposed update to EU copyright law. As I explained, there are some bad ideas being proposed, notably upload filters (Article 13), and ancillary copyright for news publications (Article 11), that will seriously harm the Internet in the EU. I won't repeat everything I wrote there: the bad ideas are still in play, despite minor amendments that have been proposed to give the impression that problems have been addressed. They haven't.
But I will ask you to write, once more, to your MEPs, as I did again in July, asking them to defend the Internet in the key European Parliament vote on Wednesday, 12 September. Once more, a short email is quite sufficient: the most important thing is to convey the seriousness of the situation. At its simplest, we need to remove Article 11 and Article 13 completely – they are not salvageable – and to amend Article 3 to allow companies to carry out text and data mining (TDM).
As well as the posts mentioned above, here are few more articles I have written on this topic in recent months, which you may find useful in writing emails to your representatives.
Article 13
Article 13: Putting Flawed Upload Filters At The Heart Of The Internet
Article 13: Making Copyright Unfit For The Digital Age
Article 13: Even Worse Than The Us DMCA Takedown System
You Wouldn’t Steal A Meme: The Threat From Article 13
Don’t Let Upload Filters Undermine The Public Domain
Upload Filters, Copyright And Magic Pixie Dust
Article 11
Article 11: Driven By Rhetoric, Not By Arithmetic
Article 3
Why The Copyright Directive Lacks (Artificial) Intelligence
The Right To Read Is The Right To Mine
But really, the details aren't so important at this stage: just write something – the simpler, and more direct the better – perhaps using WriteToThem if you are in the UK, or SaveYourinternet if you are in the EU. If we don't manage to beat off this implicit attack on the Internet in the vote on Wednesday, we will probably hobble the Internet in the EU forever, with knock-on effects around the world. It's that serious.
But I will ask you to write, once more, to your MEPs, as I did again in July, asking them to defend the Internet in the key European Parliament vote on Wednesday, 12 September. Once more, a short email is quite sufficient: the most important thing is to convey the seriousness of the situation. At its simplest, we need to remove Article 11 and Article 13 completely – they are not salvageable – and to amend Article 3 to allow companies to carry out text and data mining (TDM).
As well as the posts mentioned above, here are few more articles I have written on this topic in recent months, which you may find useful in writing emails to your representatives.
Article 13
Article 13: Putting Flawed Upload Filters At The Heart Of The Internet
Article 13: Making Copyright Unfit For The Digital Age
Article 13: Even Worse Than The Us DMCA Takedown System
You Wouldn’t Steal A Meme: The Threat From Article 13
Don’t Let Upload Filters Undermine The Public Domain
Upload Filters, Copyright And Magic Pixie Dust
Article 11
Article 11: Driven By Rhetoric, Not By Arithmetic
Article 3
Why The Copyright Directive Lacks (Artificial) Intelligence
The Right To Read Is The Right To Mine
But really, the details aren't so important at this stage: just write something – the simpler, and more direct the better – perhaps using WriteToThem if you are in the UK, or SaveYourinternet if you are in the EU. If we don't manage to beat off this implicit attack on the Internet in the vote on Wednesday, we will probably hobble the Internet in the EU forever, with knock-on effects around the world. It's that serious.
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