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"Should a court ever find their licensing or filtering efforts not fierce enough, sites are directly liable for infringements as if they had committed them them
by pascalxus 8y ago
"Should a court ever find their licensing or filtering efforts not fierce enough, sites are directly liable for infringements as if they had committed them themselves. This massive threat will lead platforms to over-comply with these rules to stay on the safe side, further worsening the impact on our freedom of speech."
And, lets not forget, This is an enormous liability ripe for legal abuse.
- calgoo 8y agoThis will be abused by governments and people who dont want something published. For example, here in Spain one of the past presidents wanted to make an anti-meme law as everyone was making fun of him[1]. Luckily we laughed, and he was replaced, but the kind of thing WILL happen now that they have a tool. [1] https://www.rt.com/news/366642-spain-meme-ban-backlash/ https://www.rt.com/news/366642-spain-meme-ban-backlash/ Edit: spelling
- ApolloFortyNine 8y agoWhat's scary about this to me is any implementation of ContentID will be based in some sort of score way, determining the likelyhood that something is infringing. These scores would be completely arbitrary, but you should be able to imagine the outcry if it became public that Google set the score for removal to 1000, but if they had set it 5000 would have blocked 5 times more copyrighted material. The public/politicians wouldn't understand these numbers are both made up (and so any difference between them is really meaningless), and would lead to more blocking of legal material.