YouTube and Facebook escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote

I’m not here to support G or FB getting anymore breaks, because it always has to boil down to the people, to the users: these platforms, and all media and social media platforms are essential to creative freedom/expression/speech/assembly. Any means to curtail those freedoms (no, Axel Voss, not the end of the Internet – that is hyperbolic) by slapping copyright claims wherever a studio or producer can (and they will) threatens the shutdown of those platforms, affecting those who do not have the means to fight back, affecting their ability to communicate with others.

Imagine if Tumblr were to be sued for all the ‘copyrighted’ material that is uploaded to its site, to the point where Tumblr has no choice but to completely eliminate those works or even the blogs connected with them, which would, ultimately force users off the site for good, thus ending Tumblr. No site wants to pay out millions just to protect a 15 year old’s fan account.

Never mind that the fan’s account is free publicity for XYZ artist and whoever represents them. Never mind the use of hashtags is one of the most effective marketing tools there is, and memes are almost a form of social currency.

The timing for all of this seemingly easily defeated brouhaha – just as the US loses Net Neutrality, an issue that will help ISPs to further bleed their customers – ISPs that, if various mergers go forth, could mean that content creators OWN the ISP as well – and if they want further control of their content by slapping everyone with copyright notices, the capitalist writing is on the wall.

Greed is always guaranteed to go too far.

YouTube and Facebook escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote

I think this is day twelve or something of the blog export process.

Tumblr, it is my personal and professional opinion that your export function sucks.

YouTube faces paying billions to music stars after copyright vote

Say goodbye to Youtube, say hello – again – to another age of illegal uploads and downloads.

If it all goes sideways, the people are the biggest losers, especially the smaller content producers and those who follow them. Fan videos, reaction videos, even those allegedly protected under fair use, will likely be eliminated or challenged.

I think it’s important for users to know, however, that it is the services themselves being directly penalised – not the users. So if you made a fan video of an Ed Sheeran song, you’re not going to be targeted, the service you uploaded it to is. I’ve seen too many posts coming out of Europe stating they’ll delete their blogs for fear of being sued over the content. No. Tumblr could be sued, not you (and that could mean the end of Tumblr).

This could get very ugly. Not that the Guardian or other UK papers give a shit. They keep burying it in their tech pages – if they discuss it at all. And US media isn’t covering it at all from what I’ve seen, so if you’re angry that US users aren’t discussing it or the UK even, it’s because no one really knows about it.

YouTube faces paying billions to music stars after copyright vote

growing up autistic / growing up gaslit

theoriginalmkp:

I.

this is the first lesson you learn:
you are always wrong.

there is no electric hum buzzing through the air.
there is no stinging bite to the sweetness of the mango.
there is no bitter metallic tang to the water.

there is no cruelty in their laughter, no ambiguity in the instructions, no reason to be upset.
there is no bitter aftertaste to your sweet tea, nothing scratchy about your blanket.

the lamps glow steadily. they do not falter.

II.

this is the second lesson you learn:
you are never right.

you are childish, gullible, overly prone to tears.
you are pedantic, combative, deliberately obtuse.
you are lazy, unreliable, never on time.

you’re always making up excuses, rudely interrupting, stepping on people’s shoes.
you’re always trying to get attention, never thinking about anyone else, selfish through and through.

it’s you that’s the problem. the lamps are fine.

III.

this is the third lesson you learn:
you must always give in.

mother knows best. father knows best.
doctor knows best. teacher knows best.
this is the proper path. do not go astray.

listen to your elders, respect your betters, accept what’s given to you as your due.
bow to the wisdom of experience, the education of the professional, the clarity of an external point of view.

what do you know about lamps, anyway?

Painful and accurate, even long since grown up.

No.

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/458240724/stream?client_id=N2eHz8D7GtXSl6fTtcGHdSJiS74xqOUI?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

synthcast:

Better late than never! After my laptop ate the first edit, here, finally, is last week’s podcast… about 7 hours before the new episode resets the timer!

@lolana07, @markseposts, @sapphfics and @wellamarke discuss Humans 3.4! “The Isle of Skye is not a utopia, what are you doing?” 😂👏

EU takes first step in passing controversial copyright law that could “censor the internet”

However, it’s not just a plenary vote by the European Parliament that will decide the fate of the Copyright Directive. Currently, the legislation is also set to be debated in what are known as “trilogue negotiations” — closed-door discussions between EU legislators and member states. These are intended to speed the process of adopting new laws, but critics say they are opaque and undemocratic. Whether or not the Copyright Directive will be subject to such negotiations is undecided. (The JURI committee voted this morning that it should be, but MEPs have a chance to object next month.) If the trilogues do go ahead, it increases the chances that Articles 11 and 13 will become law. “[The legislation] is much less amenable to being rejected after this process,” says McNamee.

If the legislation is passed in its current form, it would have a devastating effect. Article 13, for example, would require the creation of an automatic filter for all online content uploaded in the EU, checking it against a database of copyright licenses. The system would be costly to create, impossible to keep up-to-date, and easily gamed by copyright trolls. And, as experts including Tim Berners-Lee and Jimmy Wales have warned, it would turn the internet into a “tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users.”

EU takes first step in passing controversial copyright law that could “censor the internet”

I don’t want to disappear without a forewarning.

lctor:

As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.

The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive.
Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.

Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.

Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.

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This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.

Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf,

Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:

“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.

But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”

Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2

Here is how to contact your MEPs.

Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.

Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care.

It won’t happen as of 4 July, but the process will begin if MEPs don’t vote it down.

That every mainstream outlet is burying this or simply not discussing it is beyond the pale.

This is Day Six of the Blog Export Saga.

I don’t know if anyone else is attempting this, but if you have a blog that has more than 1,000 posts, this might be your reality.

Of course, the function might be utter non-working crap, that wouldn’t surprise anyone, would it?