Can you imagine if all the memes you love were taken away from you?
Welp, that might be happening, if you, like myself, live under the jurisdiction of the European Union.
Article 13 is a provision in the proposed EU Copyright Directive mandating that all content uploaded to the internet be monitored and potentially deleted if a likeness to existing copyrighted content is detected. This provision will be voted on by the end of 2018
Whether a creator or a consumer, everyone who uses the internet will be affected by this law — which is why we all need to speak out against it.
This is likely to impact all creators such as cartoonists, gamers, illustrators, photographers, documentary filmmakers, animators, musicians, DJs, and dancers,– bloggers, journalists, and technologist.
Online platforms will be required to implement complex and expensive filtering systems and will be held liable for copyright infringement, potentially incurring fines that threaten their economic viability. Article 13 would restrict the ability of Internet users to consume content, meaning no more memes.
This will likely have an affect on all blogging platform, notably this one. I’m not sure how it will impact myself and the content I produce, but in the worst case scenario, it will impede on this blog’s ability to post content.
5th July is the final day to lodge a challenge to the implementation of the 13th Article, meaning the internet needs you to spam the living hell out of your MEPs.
If you’re in the EU, you can do this over the phone or by tweeting or email (if you are as antisocial as me). Information about how you can do this, plus information about the planned attack on the internet’s autonomy can be found here.
If you are elsewhere, you can help stoke the flames of resistance by making memes! Ridicule the EU in your work, highlighting the issues and forcing them to self-censor their own institution. Templates can be found here.
If we can come together as an internet community we can oppose those who are trying to deny our access.
Also if I don’t post again, the EU got me.
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