Reply To: Article 11/13 for the EU and future of the site

[limburger 21704xp 1]

@tankkommander except it doesn’t work like that.
The things YouTube has had to do as a result of the DMCA have already proven that.

I’ll give you this :  Jim Sterling vs Digital Homicide

https://www.destructoid.com/jim-sterling-prevails-in-his-lawsuit-with-digital-homicide-420086.phtml
Sterling is lucky enough to have the resources to defend against such things and his channel is big enough to make this visible.

There has been zero evidence of the DMCA helping the little people.
There has been plenty of evidence of the DMCA being used to threaten & harass little people.

These things are the EU equivalent … except with the added disadvantage that we’ll have a slightly different variant of these laws in each country within the EU.

Also let’s not forget about Article 12 ( https://indivigital.com/resources/copyright/article-12/ ) which states that the publisher (! not the creator!)  is supposed to get a piece of the pie as well.

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