Representatives of the European Parliament and the EU member States have agreed in the hotly contested Reform of copyright law at a compromise. Platforms like Youtube in the future are liable for all content, the users on your pages to upload. Critics of the Reform, but also to the compromise of your warnings. the Karoline Meta Beisel Karoline Meta Beisel
Karoline Meta Beisel was born in Aachen, Germany. After graduating from high school in Naumburg on the Saale, studied in Hamburg and Madrid law school. As in, you worked referenced, among other things, the Federal Ministry for economic cooperation and development, and in the case of Amnesty International in Berlin as well as at the OECD-representation of the foreign office in Paris. After the Second state exam she was trained at the Deutsche journalistenschule in Munich for the editor. Since 2011 she writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung
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From the point of view of the critics it is the worst possible solution, the advocate of breathing: On Wednesday evening, representatives of the European Parliament and the EU member States agreed in the hotly contested Reform of copyright law at a compromise. Accordingly, platforms such as Youtube should be liable in the future, basically, for all of the content that users on your pages to upload. This responsibility, you can escape but, if you want to prevent by all possible means, try to that users upload copyright-protected movies, music or other protected works.
especially against the last point there had been up to the last violent Protest: critics fear that such a filter can not distinguish between prohibited pirated copies and allowed quotations, such as in parodies. Also, the Federal government had argued in its coalition agreement explicitly opposed to the upload filter.
in addition, the parties agreed on Wednesday to a new ancillary copyright law for press publishers, very similar to the one in Germany is in force – however, a reviewer of the European court of justice has recommended recently, it is because of a procedural error not to apply. The now agreed at EU level law is designed to ensure that publishers earn when their search engines are more widely used.
relief and praise for the compromise
the EU’s digital Commissioner Andrus Ansip praised the compromise: The Europeans would now “finally get a modern copyright law with real benefits for all”. The current Directive dates from 2001, Youtube wasn’t invented yet. Also the responsible Rapporteur in the European Parliament, Axel Voss (CDU), was relieved about the agreement: “Digital copyright protection have finally finished the wild West on the Internet, rights holders are often ridden roughshod over,” he said on Wednesday evening. Fears that the rules made the Internet is broken, would prove to be unfounded.
critics of the Reform, but also to the compromise of your warnings. “This Deal is a risk for small publishers, authors and Internet users alike, and carries with it the danger of the Internet as we know it, to lay exclusively in the hands of technology and media giant,” says the MEP, Julia Reda, who is in charge of the legislative procedure for the European Greens. The obligation to use the upload filter smaller platforms would make life difficult, can not afford filtering software.
the Reform before the European elections act, to confirm both the member States and the European Parliament the compromise that has been negotiated. That also happens, is by no means certain: during the last vote in Parliament, the Reform is not just a slim majority.
