I saw your tags on my post about the EU Copyright Directive in Germany. I don’t know where you’re from and maybe you have German followers so that’s why I want to add that German Parliament agreed on making fics legal in Germany. That’s a victory. AO3 made a post about it.

But under their implementation of the directive that will start August 1, Germans’ ability to post will be limited to 160 characters of text, 125kb image and 15 secs of audio or video by the use of uploadfilters.

It’s up to other countries to implement that copyright directive as they basically want. I live in France and I can tell you they’re on the way of screwing us over way much worse than Germany. Specially knowing fics are considered illegal here. Plus the fact that our government has the intention of making uploadfilters mandatory.

What happens to fanworks (fics, fanart, etc) is basically up to your government when they make the decision about the law.

I’ll add two links of the posts I made. One about a site that allows you to follow the implementation of the law in your country, if you’re in EU of course > HERE

And this one is about what we know about the implementation in certain countries, so far we only know about Germany, France, Spain, Hungary and Denmark > HERE

Germany -  Allows the use of uploadfilters on user generated content platforms. New law will apply from August 1. Uploads are considered presumably authorized if they cumulatively meet the following requirements: the upload uses less than half of one or more third-party works, it combines third-party content with other content, and it must be either a minor use (non-commercial use of less than 15 seconds of audio or video, 160 characters of text or 125 kB of an image) or have been flagged by the user as authorized by law.

France - Implementation by decrees. Allows the use of uploadfilters on user generated content platforms. Coming into effect on June 7th.  The main change is that the law now includes the requirement not to prevent legitimate uses. However the law does not specify how this should be achieved in practice. It contains no ex-ante safeguards that would limit automated blocking to obvious cases of infringement. With the ordinance in place France has now implemented all articles that strengthen the position of rightholders, authors and creators (articles 15, 17 & 18-23) ahead of the implementation deadline. However it has not implemented any of the Articles that strengthen users' rights.

Hungary  - https://www.mondaq.com/Article/1075402?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Denmark - https://kum.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/tech-giganter-skal-betale-for-brug-af-nyheder-og-musik

Article 13 which got renamed Article 17, includes the use of uploadfilters on user generated content platforms for Germany. If you see your German friends unable to post, don't wonder, this is why.

France's implementation is going to be so much worse.

Y'all might have heard about the EU's article 13, you know, the one that's supposed to adapt rules about copyright and ownership to the 21st century but actually turned into a load of bullshit and facilitates big tech with their big money that comes from not paying taxes? Yeah, that one.

It's currently going through the process of being adapted and entered into german law and there's a passage in there that could impact us fanfiction writers on Ao3 and other noncommercial sites by ruling they need to pay copyright fees so that work can be uploaded (Vergütungspflicht für Karikatur, Parodie und Pastiche).

My legal speak is not the greatest, there's another point to this, BUT it's explained in an understandable way in the petition to the Bundestag by the OTW.

Please sign the petition. I don't want to make another facebook account in order to be able to post stuff.

Back in 2019,the EU Copyright Directive passed by a slim margin in Parliament,the very same Directive containing Upload Filters and Link taxes.And now its on its way. AO3 made an entry explaining clearly what are the stakes,and how the current language of the bill endangers non commercial sites such as AO3 itself,as well as Wikipedia.

Please refer to the original post for the entire information: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/19550 If you are German,I beg you to contact your representatives like indicated 

Explains how this threathen freedom of speech and creativity during fair use,and how parodies,caricatures,postiche,etc should not be subjected to this. I do not know when or if other EU countries will also start implementing article 17 on their own. I do know there is a lawsuit from Poland ongoing trying to strike the Directive down (But it is extremely slow process,so its best to contact MEPs right away before too much damage is done under this Directive) Not only that,but TERREG (not part of the directive) which is the “anti terror law”) has been adopted without a plenary vote on a EU scale,which means that under one hour,certain sites will have to take down any content deemed as “terrorist” to governement’s eyes,without the control of a judge to see if its fair or not. So sites will have to resort to Upload Filters as the short time theyre given to take content down is ridiculously short. Terreg can be sued,but only if we see misuse,which isn’t really enough.

This pisses me off to no end. The fact that no one is talking about how Germany Parliament is about to vote on the EU copyright directive law implementation that will require the use of uploadfilters to restraint German users from publishing on use generated platforms. So if you see your German friends disappearing from social media and other platforms, don't be surprised. Soon it will be all users in European countries members.