This presentation mainly covers Article 11 and Article 13 from the EU Copyright Directive and shows how you can take action by getting in touch with your European Member of Parliament.
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EU Copyright Directive - 5 minute Presentation
1. A 5-minute presentation on the
EU Copyright Directive
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A 5-minute presentation on the
EU Copyright Directive
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7. Anyone using snippets of journalistic online content must
first get a license from the publisher. This new right for
publishers would apply for 5 years after publication.
The Commission wants to generate income for European
publishers by allowing them to charge internet platforms for
displaying snippets of their content to users.
Such previews would require a licence
Article 11
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8. Article 11 - A Link/Google Tax Revamp
News publishers have lobbied intensively in the past
Why?
How?
News publishers wanted to charge news aggregators such as Google
News to benefit from the advertising revenue generated by the traffic.
Through intense lobbying, the governments gave publishers the right
to charge online news aggregators.
What
happened?
As soon as they tried to enforce this right, Google
stopped indexing Axel Springer links which led to a drop
of 80% traffic.
Google removed Google News altogether from Spain
leading to a cumulated drop of 20% of traffic overnight
for publishers.
9. Article 11 - A Link/Google Tax Revamp
For the legislation in Spain, a study concluded:
“There is no theoretical or empirical justification for the introduction of a fee to be paid by news
aggregators to publishers for linking their content as part of their aggregation services.
Likewise, the arbitrary nature of the fee, which prevents publishers from opting out of receiving
the payments, inflicts harm on a large number of outlets, particularly small publications.”
An open letter from 12 publishers stated the following:
“As publishers, we are troubled to hear that such initiatives are claimed to help us. As
publishers, we know such proposals make it harder for us to be heard, to reach new readers and
new audiences. They create new barriers between us and our readers, new barriers to entry for
news publishers such as ourselves. It will be harder for us to be present, discovered and
accessed by our readers online. It will be harder for our readers to engage with our stories
online, to share links or our headlines with their friends. It will be harder for us to grow, develop
new sources of information and innovate in our business”
10. Internet platforms* hosting “large amounts” of user-uploaded
content must monitor user behavior and filter their
contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
The Commission wants to strengthen the music industry in
negotiations with YouTube. The industry believes that the
revenue Google shares with them from running ads on videos
containing their content amounts to too little compared to
payments from subscription services like Spotify
Article 13
*based on the original European Commission proposal of 2016
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11. Article 13 - A Shift in Responsibility
Until now
Those who upload content to the Internet
bear the principal responsibility for its
legality
In the future
Platforms will be directly responsible
for ensuring the legality of the content
they host
12. Article 13 - A Sub-Optimal Algorithm
● Like Content ID but for the whole internet, some call it a “censorship machine”
● In this law, for something to be blocked it doesn’t actually have to be
illegal. It just has to be flagged by the copyright holders as something they
want blocked.
19. Who Do We Need to Convince?
We need to convince at least 76 Members of the European Parliament to request that the JURI Committee’s
decision to enter into negotiations be put to a Plenary vote. If triggered, this Plenary vote would be held during the
Strasbourg Plenary Session from 02-05 July 2018. Second, once this Plenary vote has been triggered, we need to
convince a majority of the 751 MEPs to reject the JURI Committee’s negotiation mandate.
76 MEPs
