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Wikimedia on the community burden of Article 13 Show more
Wikimedia on Article 13 [Fediverse relevance] Show more
Wikimedia on Article 13 [Fediverse relevance] Show more
Think about this HUGELY important nuance from Wikimedia Foundation:
They're stating a choice point here.
That humans are superior than *machines* in telling humans what we can and cannot do.
Youtube Content ID cannot tell a cover version of a 1970s pop song in German apart from the French and English versions (which were all released around the same time), which ironically means the German record labels who currently still lobby for these laws are only going to lose out themselves is such algorithms proliferate..
Wikimedia on Article 13 [Fediverse relevance] Show more
"Even in its amended version, this proposed directive would require that **websites with large amounts of user uploaded content** add mandatory upload filters. What this means is that websites would be required to have algorithms check **all user uploads** against a database of content and block those that are detected as infringing copyrights from appearing online."