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Who's pushing for this? Meme's are free advertising for the rights holder. It's like media industries love to hurt themselves. They've already brought back mas

• tom_mellior 7y ago
  > Meme's are free advertising for the rights holder. Most of the time I don't know where the meme's graphical content is from so it's not really advertising the source. But by the same token of course the meme is not harmful to the the content owner's economic interests.
• avian 7y ago
  > Meme's are free advertising for the rights holder. Unfortunately, artists can't make a living from free advertising. Anyway, the "Germany to ban memes" is just a spin on the story to generate clicks and outrage (similar to the EU copyright directive some time before). This legislation is about commercial use of images. The 128x128 pixels is what the law would consider a "thumbnail" image that can be used without explicit license from the copyright holder. Perhaps a more correct headline would be "Germany to unban memes smaller than 128x128 pixels".
  • mfcl 7y ago
    > Unfortunately, artists can't make a living from free advertising. They also don't make money when the meme is 128x128 pixels or not used at all. What is your point?
• Mirioron 7y ago
  This is just a consequence of the copyright reform by the EU that passed. Remember article 11 and 13? (15 and 17 when passed.) This is it. The EU can't make laws themselves: it gets the national governments to make the laws and this is the one for Germany.