Vous avez peut-être eu vent des efforts qui sont actuellement déployés en Europe pour réformer la loi relative au droit d’auteur. En fait, le débat dure depuis des mois au Parlement européen, et si les nouvelles directives sont approuvées cette semaine, nous devrons filtrer et bloquer automatiquement les contenus que vous publiez, et ce, sans aucune considération pour la liberté d’expression.
Il va sans dire que nous respectons les droits d’auteur et les droits de marque des autres. Nous prenons très au sérieux les plaintes que nous recevons afin de nous assurer que vos créations sont protégées. Nos méthodes sont décrites dans nos Règles communautaires, et le cadre juridique actuellement en vigueur est juste et efficace : nous supprimons les billets et médias dont les contenus enfreindraient les droits d’auteur lorsque nous recevons une demande de retrait DMCA (Digital Millennieum Copyright Act) valide. Nous fournissons aussi aux utilisateurs faisant l’objet d’une plainte différents moyens de contester s’ils estiment que leur contenu a été retiré injustement. Tous les cas de violation sont analysés, signalés et présentés dans notre rapport de transparence biannuel.
La proposition d’utiliser une technologie de filtrage automatique des contenus enfreignant les droits d’auteur est irréfléchie et pourrait avoir des conséquences nuisibles. En effet, les filtres automatiques sont incapables de déterminer si l’utilisation d’un contenu devrait être considérée comme une “utilisation raisonnable” selon la loi, pas plus qu’ils ne peuvent déterminer si l’utilisation est autorisée par un contrat de licence. Ils ne font pas non plus la distinction entre une parodie, une satire ou même vos photos personnelles si elles ressemblent à des images protégées par les droits d’auteur. Pour faire simple : nous ne pensons pas que cette technologie puisse remplacer le jugement d’un être humain.
Tumblr est et a toujours été un lieu d’expression créative, et ces nouvelles règles ne feront que vous rendre la tâche plus difficile si vous voulez vous exprimer avec la liberté et l’ouverture dont vous jouissez en ce moment.
Si vous vivez en Europe et que vous voulez agir, visitez le site saveyourinternet.eu pour obtenir toutes les informations nécessaires.
I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf,
Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
I don’t usually share this kind of thing, and I will delete it later. But this June 20th the EU want to pass Article 13 that will destroy fair use on the internet and will effect non-EU residents too. Goodbye to making money from fan art and livestreaming games and parody videos. No can do. Visit saveyourinternet.eu to very simply send a pre-written email to you MEPs. Please spread awareness as there’s not much time.
Edit for anyone seeing this original post for the first time (idk if it’ll appear on reblogs but it’s worth a shot): I’ve heard from a large number of people this is merely alt-right hysteria cos it would mean censoring them. So I’m not supporting this anymore having seen some of what was actually written in the documentation about the articles. I wanna protect fair use, but I ain’t no alt-right supporter *mic drop*
Hope this will spread as much as save net neutrality posts
it’s way worse than that law actually, in US they “just” wanted your money, here the EU goverment wants to take our freedom without even giving a choice
SPREAD THIS
I’m just speechless. Dudes, this is wayyyy worse then The Net Neutrality bullshit in the US. Spread this like a wildfire! I don’t wanna lose everything I have thanks to this law!
Oh my gosh why am I only hearing about this now? Please everyone, spread this! Most of the time we talk about problems that are happening in the US but this time it’s in the EU and we need to stand against it!!
Please help if you can it’s going to make so much damage! Just for an example, both of my blogs will disappear if it isn’t stopped, ao3 will also disappear for european countries just like every website like these ones.
So please, help!!
Actually reblogging that one because 1) I checked the original poster and 2) I felt doubt when no french media outlet that wasn’t obviously alt-right dwelved on the subject, so here I go with a list of reasons this post is dead wrong.
1) made by a self-proclaimed fascist with a blog called “Think-critically” whose blog is full of racist, transphobic, fascistic, mysoginist content. Allow me to doubt.
2) the guy in the video is a friend of the EDL. You can see another of his videos from 2 days ago where Tommy Robinson, leader of this islamophobic group which is on numerous hate watch list, supports this channel’s messages.
3) EDRI and Techdirt are also websites associated with the alt-right.
4) From everything I’ve gathered about said article 13. It’s actually meant to stop, block and disable fake news campaigns. Like the ones Russia did in France in 2017, the UK during brexit, Italy, Germany, Poland, etc…. It’s a way to also put responsability on websites that host the information (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. All 3 having a pretty tulmutuous relationship with European countries (Read: don’t comply with the law and refuse to pay taxes)) as a deterrent to make sure they’re careful during election season (Which, to their credit, they were during the Irish referendum, blocking foreign media outlets). That means
5) The alt-right just got 30k Tumblr users to sign a petition against blocking Russia’s interference in our elections, dressed it up as a brave struggle for freedom (This will END the internet guys. Trust me on this one. They want to destroy it because….. BAD. Not GOOD.) And y’all not checking your damn sources played right into their hands.
In conclusion: Fuck Putin and fuck the Alt-right, go out and vote, check your sources.
Reblogging for the above addition, because I’ve seen this post circulating my dash and, frankly, it’s just ridiculous. Here’s the actual article in question:
wupacing 