Mozilla Is Fighting for EU Copyright Law Reform

>It’s illegal to share a picture of the Eiffel Tower light display at night. The display is copyrighted — and tourists don’t have the artists’ express permission.

Here in Belgium, freedom of panorama was recently introduced. This law was opposed by progressive parties, who cited the French situation as the ideal. I’m glad the law passed anyway, but this progressive stance against freedom of panorama worries me in the long run.

I hope Mozilla is successful, but I fear they may face strong opposition from those who should know better.

The panorama situation is pretty stupid. But the rest of mozillas argument is pretty weak, and their approach of describing it and getting lay people to sign a petition is poor form in imho.