Europe even wants to ban Creative Commons licenses -- the EU proposals are insane

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: April 11, 2018 at 10:46:55 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Europe even wants to ban Creative Commons licenses -- the EU proposals are insane
>
>
> Europe even wants to ban Creative Commons licenses -- the EU proposals are insane
>
> The EU's latest copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative
> Commons licenses
>
> https://boingboing.net/2018/04/11/evidence-free-zone.html
>
>      Under the new rules, anyone who allows the public to post
>    material will have to maintain vast databases of copyrighted
>    works claimed by rightsholders, and any public communications
>    that matches anything in these databases has to be blocked.
>    These databases have been tried on much more modest scales --
>    Youtube's Content ID is a prominent example -- and they're a
>    mess. Because rightsholders are free to upload anything and
>    claim ownership of it, Content ID is a font of garbagey,
>    sloppy, fraudulent copyright abuse: five different companies
>    claim to own the rights to white noise; Samsung claims to own
>    any drawing of its phones; Nintendo claims it owns gamers'
>    animated mashups; Sony claims it owns stock footage it stole
>    from a filmmaker whose work it had censored; the biggest music
>    companies in the world all claim to own the rights to "Silent
>    Night", a rogues' gallery of sleazy copyfraudsters claim to
>    own NASA's spacecraft landing footage -- all in all, these
>    systems benefit the large and the unethical at the cost of
>    small and nimble.  That's just for starters ...
>
> - - -
>
> How many years have I been warning that the EU is the worst risk to
> freedom of speech on the planet, dedicated to enforcing their own sick
> regimes around the world? They make Russia, China, and even North
> Korea look like the good guys in these contexts by comparison. It was
> clear where they were going once they started their monstrous "Right
> To Be Forgotten" nonsense. Yep, we may have to cut Europe off the Net
> entirely if this keeps up. How about blocking all users coming from
> European ip addresses? Will it come to that? If the twisted EU
> politicians and bureaucrats have their way, we might have to actually
> go that far just to protect ourselves!
>
> --Lauren--



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