Around 3,500 people demonstrated in Berlin against the EU copyright reform and the possible introduction of so-called Upload-Filter. The of the organizers on Saturday called the number coincided approximately with the estimate of a Reuters reporter. Were logged in, according to police information 300.
The demonstrators marched from the Axel-Springer-Verlag in the district of Kreuzberg over to the Federal Ministry of justice for representation of the EU Commission at the Brandenburg gate. The Reform proposed in article 13, will have “a massive impact on the freedom of expression and the diversity of the Internet,” said the Alliance “Berlin 13”.
article 13, to take on commercial platforms such as YouTube, the copyright more. Users uploaded Material, such as, for example, Videos should be checked. “However, this will only work with automatic Filters, which could then be too much to filter out,” said Volker Grassmuck from the Association’s Digital society.
Thus, the fear is that even legal quotes, such messages could be sorted out in the contributions of Internet users. “Then you have to Lodge a complaint or even sue”. This would lead to a decline in the diversity of opinion on the Internet, said Grassmuck.
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Called for the Demonstration organizations, such as the Chaos Computer Club, the journalists ‘ Association of free writers and the Association of the Digital society. (dpa)