> 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 j

> 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".