Minister of justice Barley proposes to his Cabinet colleagues that Germany, the EU agrees to this copyright line and a complementary log statement adds. The Upload Filter to meet, therefore, only “dominant” platforms such as Facebook. Yet, it is still unclear how this would work. The statement is also probably not legally binding. the
Germany to the controversial EU Copyright Directive, according to the will of the Federal Minister of justice Katarina Barley agree. The proposing party, the SPD politician of their Minister colleagues in the other ministries in a Letter from the news Agency Reuters quoted.
However, Barley formulated the “indispensable conditions for the approval”. So Germany is at 15. April in the EU Council to agree the text of the Directive, the European Parliament adopted. However, she wanted to add a five-page statement in the minutes. “The Federal government is in the implementation of article 17 […] of the objective route, without the Instrument ‘Upload Filter’ to get along,” it says in the log statement, which probably should not be legally binding.
Upload Filter
Barley in the terminal
The Upload Filter is the point of the Reform, were the there was the most dispute. According to the Directive, all commercial platforms, from a turnover threshold of EUR 10 million and three years old is fully liable for the copyright violations of their users. You need to pay for licenses to artists, or collecting societies for all movies, pictures, and Videos, the user to you to upload. The amount of material uploaded on the net this is according to experts, is only possible, if the Filter is used for the Software, the data content automatically to block. However, the Software makes a lot of mistakes and has trouble recognizing journalistic Material, quotes, or parodies would be allowed. It is also very expensive and probably prohibitive for smaller providers.
objectives The obligation for the comprehensive control and punishment of copyright infringement to Barley, only on the “market power” platforms such as Facebook. It is unclear, however, how Upload Filter specifically only on large platforms is limited. A cancellation of Barley given at the same time, the CDU proposed a flat rate of licenses as an Alternative to Upload Filters.
Barley has set the ministries in a period of time for the approval to Thursday from 18 clock. She justified the request for a short-term commitment that the EU had set the Council Secretariat to the EU governments, in turn, a deadline until Friday 12 clock.
The European Parliament adopted the controversial Reform of the copyright law. The EU Council at the 15. April its final consent to give, for what, Barley, as the responsible Minister, now the instruction has to give. She does not agree with itself, the foreign Ministers of the EU, i.e. Germany Heiko Maas (SPD), or the Ministers of agriculture, Julia Klöckner (CDU) to either do on your Meet. After that, the EU member States will have two years of the Directive into national law. If in this period, that the feared restrictions on advocacy of the freedom of expression, should be the EU Commission “without delay” and changes to the policy proposal.
