<story><title>The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know</title><url>https://redditblog.com/2018/11/28/the-eu-copyright-directive-what-redditors-in-europe-need-to-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s perfectly fine to share links, the EU directive specifically states so. What you can&amp;#x27;t do, is take content, and host it as your own without getting authorization to do so by the content creator.&lt;p&gt;You can probably imagine why that would be a problem from Reddit.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t personally care if companies like reddit get to face the harshest possible fines from the EU, they are morally bankrupt after all. I mean, almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy, and very rarely does the original content creators actually benefit from having their works shared or altered on reddit, and that&amp;#x27;s not even touching their shady political and commercial manipulation. On the other hand, I really doubt that EU legislation will ever be successful in stopping people from sharing dank memes.&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;m guessing this only applies to the desktop version of reddit, because would be impossible to see anything on the mobile version anyway since everything is blocked by all those &amp;quot;USE OUR APP&amp;quot; banners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betterunix2</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Morally&lt;/i&gt; bankrupt?  Copyright is not a moral issue, it is just a several centuries old regulation created by people who could never have envisioned something like the Internet.  The effort to turn copyright into a moral issue is nothing more than a tactic employed by copyright-based industries in their desperate bid to stay relevant without changing their business models.</text></comment>
<story><title>The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know</title><url>https://redditblog.com/2018/11/28/the-eu-copyright-directive-what-redditors-in-europe-need-to-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s perfectly fine to share links, the EU directive specifically states so. What you can&amp;#x27;t do, is take content, and host it as your own without getting authorization to do so by the content creator.&lt;p&gt;You can probably imagine why that would be a problem from Reddit.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t personally care if companies like reddit get to face the harshest possible fines from the EU, they are morally bankrupt after all. I mean, almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy, and very rarely does the original content creators actually benefit from having their works shared or altered on reddit, and that&amp;#x27;s not even touching their shady political and commercial manipulation. On the other hand, I really doubt that EU legislation will ever be successful in stopping people from sharing dank memes.&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;m guessing this only applies to the desktop version of reddit, because would be impossible to see anything on the mobile version anyway since everything is blocked by all those &amp;quot;USE OUR APP&amp;quot; banners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zak</author><text>The sort of images most commonly posted to reddit are screengrabs from movies or games with text added for humorous effect. This sort of use has traditionally been classed as fair use under copyright law.&lt;p&gt;Penalizing reddit for doing so would not result in more revenue for the creators of the source material.</text></comment>