page_title: Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
section_title: Non-governmental organisations
hierarchical_section_title: Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market / Positions / Non-governmental organisations
caption_attribution_description: English: Italian Wikipedia blocked because of protests on EU directive on copyright Bahasa Melayu: Laman yang terpapar semasa Wikipedia Itali mengenakan sekatan sebagai bantahan terhadap arahan hak cipta yang dikenakan oleh Kesatuan Eropah
context_page_description: The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, formally the Directive 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC is a European Union directive which has been adopted and came into force on 7 June 2019. It is intended to ensure "a well-functioning marketplace for copyright". It extends existing European Union copyright law and is a component of the EU's Digital Single Market project. The European Council describes their key goals with the Directive as protecting press publications; reducing the "value gap" between the profits made by Internet platforms and by content creators; encouraging collaboration between these two groups, and creating copyright exceptions for text- and data-mining.
  The directive was introduced by the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs on 20 June 2018, and a revised proposal was approved by the parliament on 12 September 2018. The final version, which resulted from negotiations during formal trilogue meetings, was presented to the parliament on 13 February 2019.
context_section_description: In 2017, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders were among the signatories of an open letter opposing Article 13. 145 organisations from the areas of human and digital rights, media freedom, publishing, libraries, educational institutions, software developers, and Internet service providers signed a letter opposing the proposed legislation on 26 April 2018. Some of those opposed include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, European Digital Rights, the Max Planck Society, GitHub, various Wikimedia chapters, and the Wikimedia Foundation (the parent organisation of Wikipedia).
  The Italian Wikipedia, later followed by others including the Spanish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, French, and Portuguese editions, "blacked-out" its pages for readers on 3–5 July 2018, while the English Wikipedia added a banner asking readers in Europe to contact their representatives in the European Parliament. The Wikimedia Foundation reiterated its concerns in February 2019. Four editions of Wikipedia—German, Danish, Czech and Slovak—were blacked-out for 24 hours on 21 March 2019 to further protest the directive. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales raised concerns regarding the costs and effectiveness of upload filters and possible negative effects upon free speech online.
caption: The banner block on Italian Wikipedia. Other blocked Wikipedias had similar messages.
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