Hello,

i would like to ask You to please check the information regarding Eu Copyright directive that will be voted upon in June 2018.

Here are most relevant information about risks of approving this directive proposal i have found:

1) Article 13

"This [law] will lead to excessive filtering and deletion of content and limit the freedom to impart information on the one hand, and the freedom to receive information on the other."
– 57 signatories (https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/delete-article-thirteen-open-letter/13194) representing fundamental rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch and Reporters without Borders

"States and intergovernmental organizations should refrain from establishing laws or arrangements that would require the “proactive” monitoring or filtering of content, which is both inconsistent with the right to privacy and likely to amount to pre-publication censorship."
– United Nations Human Rights Council report (https://freedex.org/a-human-rights-approach-to-platform-content-regulation/)

"The proposed measures will require monitoring and filtering of anything that European citizens upload to content-sharing services

The impact of making internet hosting providers liable for activities about which they have no knowledge would be huge. It would, in reality, require both extensive monitoring of everything uploaded to the internet and deletion of any communications that generated a legal risk for the provider. This would result in a huge “chilling effect” on freedom of expression, and massive private censorship, undermining innovation and competition"
– https://edri.org/files/copyright/copyright_proposal_article13.pdf

"By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet, from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users."
– Letter https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf
– Article about the letter https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal

An example of problems the Article 13 can bring to internet services:
https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filters-code/

Funny (?) animated video showing Article 13 supporter Axel Voss "breaking" the internet:


2) Article 11

"It has been suggested that the right will prevent the re-use of snippets from, and hyperlinks[1] to, publicly available websites. If these claims turn out to be true, the new right will also harm freedom of expression and freedom of art, and impede innovation" (Article 11)
– https://www.ivir.nl/academics-against-press-publishers-right/

For the updates, please read last post of this topic, i am updating this topic.