The European Commission wants to obligate internet platforms to monitor all content their users upload for copyright infringements. This is laid out in Article 13 of Günther Oettinger’s copyright overhaul plans.
I’ve detailed the harmful effects such upload surveillance would have in my previous post 10 things on the web the EU Commission wants to […]
more ›In a few days, scandal-prone Günther Oettinger will stop being Europe’s top internet policy maker – he’s being promoted to oversee the EU budget.
But before leaving, the outgoing Digital Commissioner submitted dangerous plans that undermine two core foundations of the internet: Links and file uploads. While Oettinger is going away, his lobby-dictated proposals are […]
more ›This article was first published in German at Übermedien.de on March 31, 2022.
Last week, the EU reached an agreement on a core piece of platform regulation, the Digital Markets Act. The Digital Markets Act contains rules for digital companies with high market power, so-called gatekeepers. These are large companies that provide an exceptionally widely […]
more ›This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license.
GitHub is currently causing a lot of commotion in the Free Software scene with its release of Copilot. Copilot is an artificial intelligence trained on publicly available source code and texts. It produces code suggestions […]
more ›When the European Union adopted the new copyright directive, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member States time until June 2021 to introduce the new rules into their national copyright laws. France, the most fervent supporter of Article 17, apparently has no time to lose and just presented the new […]
more ›2022: Mündiges Datensubjekt statt Laborratte: Rechtsschutz gegen Wissenschaftstracking. In: Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Nomos. (CC-by 4.0)
2021: Creative Commons’ Statement on CC licenses and the Text and Data Mining Exception Under Article 4 EU CDSM Directive. With Ana Lazarova, Thomas Margoni, Ariadna Matas, Sarah Pearson, Brigitte Vézina, Kat Walsh, and Stephen Wyber. PDF Download here.
2020: Geoblocking: […]
more ›The European Commission today released a proposal on combating fake news. It includes a call for the extra copyright for news sites or “link tax”, which is part of the copyright reform plans currently hotly debated in Parliament and Council. In parallel, rapporteur Axel Voss is also trying to add this justification for the law […]
more ›Should the European Commission’s proposal for an extra copyright for news sites become law, restricting how we can share news online?
After repeated delays, MEP Axel Voss (EPP) has just released his proposal for the European Parliament’s position. His view? The Commission proposal for the “link tax” does not go far enough!
After he already advocated […]
more ›Ever since the European Commission presented its hugely controversial proposal to force internet platforms to employ censorship machines, the copyright world has been eagerly awaiting the position of the European Parliament. Today, the person tasked with steering the copyright reform through Parliament, rapporteur Axel Voss, has finally issued the text he wants the Parliament to […]
more ›For months now I’ve been raising the alarm about the plan to limit the freedom to link that has been slowly but surely making its way through the EU legislative process.
The European Commission and the publishing lobby have accused those of us fighting to save the link of exaggerating the danger that the planned extra copyright […]
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