EU Copyright Reform: Upload Filters Endanger Our Democracy

en.epicenter.works

EU Copyright Reform: Upload Filters Endanger Our Democracy

All across Europe, nearly everyone seems to agree that the European copyright regulations need to be updated and brought into the 21st century. However, some of the proposed measures appear to be flashbacks to darker times in our past or the methods of authoritarian dictatorships. This is especially true for the upload filters in Article 13 of the European Commission's proposal. Obliging platforms to screen every bit of content that is uploaded for possible copyright violations requires a censorship system that would endanger the free and open internet and with it our democracy itself.

FM4 Reality Check:

13:25 Article 13: what it means
13:34 Article 13: How it would affect Internet users

This is early days, the commissions draft has to pass Parlament and Council where the sovereign nations have to evaluate how and if it can be passed into local law. But NOW is the time to act and stop this, while it is in its infancy.

The campaign websites Save the Meme and Change Copyright offer easy ways to get into contact with MEPs and to convince them to stop these dangerous developments and stand up for a copyright reform which actually faces the challenges and needs of the internet in the 21st century.

For the German speakers, there is more information on Logbuch Netzpolitik: https://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/lnp257-digitalkommissar-der-herzen

EU: Uploadfilter und LSR: