Latest EU Copyright Plan Would Ban Copyright Holders From Using Creative Commons | Techdirt

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"Latest EU Copyright Plan Would Ban Copyright Holders From Using Creative Commons

from the because-that's-how-stupid-things-have-gotten dept

We recently noted that the latest version of the EU's copyright directive, being pushed by MEP Axel Voss (though the metadata showed that it actually came from the EU Commission), would bring back horrible censorial ideas like mandatory filtering. As we noted, such a plan would likely kill important sites like Github, which would have trouble functioning as a repository for sharing code if it had to block... sharing of code. But the plan keeps getting worse. As MEP Julia Reda recently explained, with each new version that Voss puts out, the end results are more and more ridiculous....

Once again this appears to be copyright policy driven solely by the interests of a single party: big publishers who are annoyed at Google for aggregating news and are demanding payment. It doesn't take into account (1) whether or not this is necessary (2) whether or not this makes sense (3) what will be the impact on other aggregators (4) what will be the impact on tons of other publications and (5) what will be in the best interest of the public.

It's a pretty bad way to make policy, though it's all too common when it comes to copyright."

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180406/17265539586/latest-eu-copyright-plan-would-ban-copyright-holders-using-creative-commons.shtml

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Date tagged:

04/12/2018, 15:46

Date published:

04/12/2018, 11:46