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I sent an email to my MEPs saying exactly this; it's not technically feasible to implement this without having the media in question, so you are shifting this v

by pimmen 8y ago

I sent an email to my MEPs saying exactly this; it's not technically feasible to implement this without having the media in question, so you are shifting this very steep requirement of proof from the accuser to the accused. The media companies are the accusers, they should build this database to make it easier for them to prove their case.

tannhaeuser 8y ago
Interesting. How did you formulate your concerns? IANAL (well, took four semesters) and it's difficult even for most lawyers to recap the entire legal theory behind commercial and moral rights of works. Do you know a better template text than https://saveyourinternet.eu/ https://saveyourinternet.eu/ and in German? I agree the law should be reconsidered, or at least, as you say, should address publishers's part in eg. maintaining and distributing SHA keys for works they claim, though we all know this can trivially be defeated by just recoding content. I also don't understand why concepts of other parts of the law (link previews of snippets from news, Wikipedia and StackOverflow being shown on SERP pages so users don't go to the original source) aren't integrated, when there are obvious, widely used, and readily available techniques for linking, annotations and HTML metadata, or why these two issues should belong in the same law. I guess it's just a profoundly incompetent law. I'm still confused who is behind the push for this part of "copyright" reform. German party CDU they say (eg. the party of Ms Merkel) with their buddy/sponsor Axel Springer Verlag, but OTOH last year's equally flawed law for online platforms self-censoring was initiated by Heiko Maas, SPD, so the lack of public or parliamentary discussion smells like a hidden quid-pro-quo deal here to me. I'd really appreciate links to more balanced and comprehensive coverage; even netzpolitik.org coverage is too one-sided IMHO.

by pimmen 8y ago

tannhaeuser 8y ago

Interesting. How did you formulate your concerns? IANAL (well, took four semesters) and it's difficult even for most lawyers to recap the entire legal theory behind commercial and moral rights of works. Do you know a better template text than https://saveyourinternet.eu/ https://saveyourinternet.eu/ and in German? I agree the law should be reconsidered, or at least, as you say, should address publishers's part in eg. maintaining and distributing SHA keys for works they claim, though we all know this can trivially be defeated by just recoding content. I also don't understand why concepts of other parts of the law (link previews of snippets from news, Wikipedia and StackOverflow being shown on SERP pages so users don't go to the original source) aren't integrated, when there are obvious, widely used, and readily available techniques for linking, annotations and HTML metadata, or why these two issues should belong in the same law. I guess it's just a profoundly incompetent law. I'm still confused who is behind the push for this part of "copyright" reform. German party CDU they say (eg. the party of Ms Merkel) with their buddy/sponsor Axel Springer Verlag, but OTOH last year's equally flawed law for online platforms self-censoring was initiated by Heiko Maas, SPD, so the lack of public or parliamentary discussion smells like a hidden quid-pro-quo deal here to me. I'd really appreciate links to more balanced and comprehensive coverage; even netzpolitik.org coverage is too one-sided IMHO.