Memes "Will Be Banned" under New EU Copyright Law, Warn Campaigners

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Campaigners are warning that a new copyright law from the European Union would lead to the banning of memes on the internet. Under Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive, websites allowing public uploads will have to run submissions through a filter that detects and blocks any copyrighted content. Memes would be an obvious casualty due to the images they comprise.

The law would "destroy the internet as we know it" warn the campaigners, who add it would "allow big companies to control what we see and do online." Essentially, the campaigners are arguing the stringent copyright protections of Article 13 would damage the sharing of parody content and memes which, while themselves being original and creative works, are often developed from other people's original content.
 
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Oh who cares, it's a damn meme! If anything it's probably more of an audience promotion vs hurting the author of original picture.
 
Betaboy1983 said:
Oh who cares, it's a damn meme! If anything it's probably more of an audience promotion vs hurting the author of original picture.
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This isn't so much about them wanting to make memes illegal, it's about them forcing image uploaders to have special copyright filters in place that compares the image with known copyrights (think ContentID). It'll create issues for fair use (I assume EU has an equivalent) because content filters can't tell the difference between (legal) parody and theft.

May also have issue with sites either just going to the draconian version for everyone, or having to offer two versions - one for the EU laws and one for everyone else.
 
So run all the pictures through a Photoshop filter that make them look like a painting or whatever.

Still super dumb, but what did you expect from the EU?
 
I'd run them trough a stringent sanity check instead.

Since most people are already stupid, and politicians are people, it is inevitable that most politicians are also stupid.
 
So, the EU is trying to regulate the Internet again, eh? To paraphrase a famous movie quote: "The more sites they try to control, the more that will slip through their fingers."
 
Breaking Copyright is breaking the law. I see The law and order folk only talk like that for very different situations.
How telling.
 
I'd like to think they have more important issues to deal with but why should this shit surprise me anymore.
 
Lol, when will they learn to stop fucking with everyones' internets.
This is also aimed at imageboard use. Good luck with that.
You faggots.
 
Waiting for the day that individual electrons start getting sued for infringement.

REGULATE THOSE THINGS.
 
The EU is a fucking meme

Comparable to sum bag Steve or xzibit.

You dawg I heard you like tyranny.

So we put some tyranny in your tyranny so you can be oppressed while you are being oppressed
 
I skimped the article and couldn't find a single link. That's not how it works with the internet, guys. I am reading a newspaper for a reason. Not buying it
 
Another plight against white hetero men, who enjoy spending their time on the internet. Male migrants don't even know what memes are and don't spend their time on getting Facebook likes.
 
And don't forget. They're going to tax links if you link to content that you don't own. Memes is just part of this - it's supposed to cover all content.
 
OK, is not any creative output of any sort automatically copyright? This post is mine, and is in theory copyright. I am implicitly granting the [H] rights to use it by posting it here, but wouldn't the law essentially require every posting to the internet be cross checked against the entire internet and every published piece of media ever created?

It seems less than feasible.
 
raz-0 said:
OK, is not any creative output of any sort automatically copyright? This post is mine, and is in theory copyright. I am implicitly granting the [H] rights to use it by posting it here, but wouldn't the law essentially require every posting to the internet be cross checked against the entire internet and every published piece of media ever created?
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No.
 
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