Link to the video of the press conference after the bill passed the EU-parlament in July 2018:
https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/press-conference-on...
Somehow, this is doublespeak, somehow it make sense too..
Somehow, this is doublespeak, somehow it make sense too..
My impressions:
* Axel saying that Wikipedia shouldn't be against it because they added exception for them. He is missing the point so confidently...
* Missing all points raised by people not connected with Google/Amazon/Facebook. Nobody said it will be copyright issue for uploader. Everybody is saying that service owners will be more prone to removing content, just to be safe, in effect limiting access to information sharing. They also don't address existing issues YouTube has with copyright management and how it's abused by other firms.
* They are all talking about Monopolies and forgetting that such law will only strengthen them and minimize EU chance to create their own versions of google/facebook etc.
* They are focusing on newspapers/text and aggregators. If you don't want to be on google. Use robot noindex metatag. If you want to ensure your content is not aggregated further... hide it behind paywall or any other UX wall. There are technical solutions to do it. And in the end, if nothing helps, I believe if someone just copies your content 1:1, you can sue him for it. Even if it's news article.
* As for uploads and copyright detection. I hate myself for saying it... but leave it to copyright owners. Add legal tools for easier copyright challenges and arbitration. But at current state, our legal system is to slow to handle copyright management on such wide scope without hitting issues like Youtube has with many agents gaming the system. Let's maybe do some baby steps first by allowing for easier legal arbitration in general and then let's focus on also doing it for copyright issues. However... there is no money in it.
TLDR: Yes, we need changes to handle copyright management on the internet. However their approach is premature, to generic and uninformed.