![]() ![]() In principle, this would also cover images containing text from a news article. However, if the ancillary copyright in Article 11 of the copyright Directive proposal were to be adopted, any text that was part of any article published in the last 20 years would be subject to the filtering regime imposed by Article 13. The idea seems to be to “soften” the upload filter by putting responsibility on rightsholders. The Council’s new text on Article 13 says that OCSSPs “shall not be liable” for making available copyrighted content, if rightsholders have not provided the necessary data to identify the work and thus allow OCSSPs to block the content in advance. In the latest documents leaked from the Council meetings there is a new definition of a type of online service, “online content sharing service provider” (OCSSP) which would be the one affected by the censorship machine proposal (Article 13).Īlthough enough has been said about the risks of the upload filter and ancillary copyright separately, less has been said about the potential interconnections between the two of them. The two worst proposals in it are the upload filter (“ censorship machine”) in Article 13 and the ancillary copyright in Article 11. On the other hand, the EU Council, composed of the relevant ministers in charge of the copyright Directive proposal, is speeding up. On one hand, Axel Voss, the German conservative (EPP/CDU) Parliamentarian in charge of the dossier in the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) is on some sort of a stand-by while the German government forms. Copyright discussions continue in the European institutions. ![]()
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