<story><title>EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BlackFly</author><text>I wish that the EFF would include links to the updated directive. The latest I can find is the language as of 2018-05-25 (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.consilium.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;35373&amp;#x2F;st09134-en18.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.consilium.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;35373&amp;#x2F;st09134-en18.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) which doesn&amp;#x27;t contain the terms &amp;quot;commercial platforms&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;news site&amp;quot; or link. It does leave the definition of &amp;quot;unsubstantial parts&amp;quot; up to member states, which is indeed worrying from a single market perspective.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, that wording contradicts EFF&amp;#x27;s assertion for article 13 that unlicensed content is not allowed to appear, &amp;quot;even for an instant.&amp;quot; Since all that is needed to avoid liability is to perform effective and proportionate efforts to prevent availability and to react expeditiously upon notification. Proportionality and effectiveness explicitly depend on the size of the content provider: a new streaming video service would explicitly need to do less than YouTube. Has the updated documentation explicitly removed the provision about expeditious action upon notification? Because the exception proves the rule (the rule being that unlicensed content is indeed allowed to appear for more than an instant).&lt;p&gt;So... links to spam commissioners but no links to verify that EFF is presenting a fair reading of the updated documents.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s alarming that there appears to be no provision for fair use of copyrighted materials.  I&amp;#x27;m not in the EU, but that would seem to be a grave oversight.&lt;p&gt;One can imagine an image or any copyrightable material which might become offensive or embarrassing might get copyrighted so as to in effect censor the material.</text></comment>