Article 13 EU parliament approved

NotKalo · September 12, 2018

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The EU parliament has approved new copyright rules that campaigners have warned could be "catastrophic" for the internet.

This is how the article begins. The European Union's parliament approves new copyright rules known as 11 and 13.
The thing that shocked not only me, but most of the Europe is the fact that the MEPs voted for the latter.
Article 13 states that technology platforms must filter the things people post on them, and check for copyright infringement.

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Campaigners warn that would probably force internet companies to introduce stringent new automated checks that content must pass before they are posted to platforms like Twitter and Facebook. That could reject anything that even possibly infringed copyright – leading to potentially banning memes that use screengrabs from films, for instance, according to campaigners.

ex.: if there is a meme on 9Gag/Facebook/instagram with your copyrighted picture, you can contact the owners of the platform and ask for any content with this picture taken down. Otherwise they will have to face heavy monetary sanctions.

Julia Reda posted on twitter:

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New filters will mean that legitimate content will be removed from sites accidentally. "Anything you want to publish will need to first be approved by these filters, perfectly legal content like parodies & memes will be caught in the crosshairs," she wrote on Twitter.

/Julia Reda is a pirate party MEP who has actively campaigned against the new measures/

I would further suggest you take a look at this, it will give you more information on the regulations that are to be enforced in the European Union.

You can see The Cringeтм here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/eu-parliament-copyright-memes-latest-vote-internet-article-11-13-a8534121.html

It has footage of the exact moment it was voted and approved. Uggggh...
I don't think any of the old folks there knew what is going on.

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