The European Parliament votes tomorrow the European norm of rights of author


The European Parliament votes tomorrow the European norm of rights of author



Wikipedia is temporarily shut down in Spain in protest of the proposal



The European Parliament votes tomorrow on the proposal of the European Commission to change the community rules on copyright. The initiative has met with the rejection of internet giants such as Google, Facebook or YouTube because it forces the platforms "that facilitate public access to large amounts of works" to take the necessary measures to ensure the "proper functioning" of the agreements reached with the holders of copyright or, where appropriate, to "prevent them from being available in their services".

Specifically, the law stipulates that multinationals in the network must systematically filter the content that users upload to these platforms, something that they reject because of the increase in costs that would have to create new control tools.

It also recognizes the legal right of the media to claim compensation for digital platforms over a period of 20 years for sharing their information content.

The proposal has passed through the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, which gave it its approval on June 20, and although the deputies support it now, it still will not come into force, since it must go through the Council of the European Union, the Community institution that represents the Member States. If they voted against it, the House would debate the rule again in September.

 The proposal of the European Commission leaves Wikipedia and other free software platforms such as GitHub out of this regulation, but in any case, the internet 'free encyclopedia' has today launched a campaign against the internet proposal.

 Wikipedia articles were not available to users and instead a message appeared that ensured that if the regulations were approved, "would significantly damage the open internet we know today."

"Instead of updating the copyright laws in Europe and promoting the participation of all citizens in the information society, the directive would threaten online freedom and impose new filters, barriers and restrictions to access the Web.

If the proposal is approved in its current version (...); Wikipedia itself would be at risk ». That was how forceful Wikipedia Spain was on its web portal.

"Article 13 is very damaging to innovation and freedom of information," explains Simona Levi, co-founder of Xnet. "It means creating the private internet police, that is, it forces the Internet providers through the operators to take charge of what their users say," he adds.

Technological pressures

This project, which is voted on Thursday, "does not affect platforms like Wikipedia", say the speakers of the directive led by the German Axel Boss.

"We are facing a very malicious campaign and full of false arguments, as the future regulations may affect Wikipedia, a platform that is expressly excluded," said Voss, who explained along with other speakers in the shadow of different political groups that the normative intends that "authors on the internet receive a fair payment for their contributions".

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