**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 12:27

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 12:27

rysiek ✅ @rysiek@mastodon.social

This is very important:
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

"Article 13 of the Copyright Directive will force internet platforms (social networks, video sites, image hosts, etc.) to install upload filters to monitor all user uploads for copyrighted content, including in images – and thus block most memes, which are usually based on copyrighted images.

(...)

It will come down to every single vote. (...) The NGO EDRi has made a list of key swing votes: https://edri.org/files/Copyright_JURI_MEPs_undecided.pdf."

This will affect #Fediverse.

**Joseph Nuthalapati** @njoseph · 2018-06-17T13:10:19Z

Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph

@rysiek Your very own profile picture needs to be deleted under this law!

And how does an individual like me hosting a Mastodon instance have the resources to implement a content filter like YouTube's? Is this a great way of outlawing decentralization and making it impossible for small players to get into content hosting websites?

Jun 17, 2018, 13:10 · 1 · 2

**Woozle Hypertwin** @woozle@toot.cat · Jun 17, 2018, 13:13

**Woozle Hypertwin** @woozle@toot.cat · Jun 17, 2018, 13:13

@njoseph @rysiek

I don't even know how that would work, technically. Is there a central database of copyrighted images against which to compare? Couldn't sysops override the filter in cases of Fair Use (or even ignore it by default)? How is posting a still image on social media not automatically Fair Use anyway?

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 13:19

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 13:19

@woozle @njoseph these are all great questions that nobody who supports Article 13 can answer.

Go ahead, ask them. Fun to be had!

**Joseph Nuthalapati** @njoseph · Jun 17, 2018, 13:23

**Joseph Nuthalapati** @njoseph · Jun 17, 2018, 13:23

@rysiek @woozle Maybe if someone can do a calculation of how many trillions of euros of potential loss this will be to the EU economy, this issue will be taken seriously.

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 13:29

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 13:29

@njoseph @woozle yeah, but focusing on the money is just playing the game of the big media conglomerates. They will win this game because they can make any absurd claim they want. And they will always be taken seriously.

We have to argue on a more basic level. Money is not everything.

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 13:16

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2018, 13:16

@njoseph exactly. The only way this could work is by Google providing an API (paid, of course!) to their Content ID thing, I guess. And everyone using it.

What a great idea. Not.