Danny O'B @mala@mastodon.social

A bunch of Swedish MEPs pressed the wrong button in the Copyright Directive vote, defeating the chance to vote to delete #article13 and #article11.

Well, that’s quite the mandate to fuck with millions of Internet users.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

The German govt just gave in to the French on limiting exemptions for small businesses in #article13 — and yet, Politico EU is reporting Axel Voss just said that it was too *still* too good a deal for small EU tech companies, and he would oppose the European Parliament supporting it!

This law just gets crazier and crazier.

This article is a great summary of where we are with #article13 and #article11 https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18194155/eu-copyright-laws-directive-negotiations-trilogue-deadlock #ifeelweirdhashtaggingthismuch

Uh oh, hearing rumors the German government is thinking of switching sides, and support #article13

Going to go streaming again, under the light of a blood wolf GNU moon.

I'll be on https://twitch.tv/codetherapy shortly, setting up new Neovim and Zsh dotfiles, pondering#Lisp, #Guix , #article13 and doing a class analysis of #hashtags You can also join the Discord at https://discord.gg/qqtFqKc . I should hopefully be able to hear the audio chat on that.

Am celebrating the victory in the latest #article13 battle by setting up my own laptop (first time I’ve had a laptop of my own in years) with a HUGE drive. What OS should I install? All of them?

JFC, the #article13 negotiations are so incoherent that earlier this week, the European TV, film and sports rightsholders said they should be halted. Now the *recording industry* says they it’s broken. It was their idea! https://www.ifpi.org/downloads/17_Jan_2019_European_Creatives_and_Rightsholders_Caution_that_New_Draft_of_Article_13_Requires_Urgent_Changes_in_Key_Areas.pdf

Confession: I write a lot about Axl Voss, the German MEP who is the main advocate for copyright filters and snippet licenses in #article13 and #article11. But when i do, I'm forever mistyping him as Axl Ross because of Axl Rose, lead singer of Guns N' Roses. Sorry, Axl!

For more details on this stage of #article13, I wrote a piece for EFF here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/fake-compromises-real-threats-next-weeks-eu-copyright-vote

Hello Assembled People of European Mastodon! I work at @eff on international copyright. You might have heard of #article13, the EU proposal to require © filters on sharing sites.

We're really worried that this could affect services like ActivePub/Mastodon instances, opening them up to lawsuits or requiring expensive filters.

The key vote is on Wednesday -- please call or write your MEP and ask them to vote against #article13 to protect the future of the internet! https://saveyourinternet.eu/

One of the things that I noticed in listening to the European Parliament debate on #Article13 and #Article11 was the live interpreters briefly mentioning their own strike action before translating the rest of the debate. The were requisitioned to translate it: https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/meps-show-support-for-parliament-interpreters/

Woohoo! In a huge victory, the European Parliament has voted 318-278 against #Article13 and #Article11—the disastrous #CensorshipMachine and #LinkTax copyright proposals. That means we’re close to stopping these terrible proposals—and we’re gaining momentum.

Had a huddled conversation in the European Parliament with a colleague after the JURI vote trying to work out what #article13 would mean for federated/decentralized services like #mastodon and #ipfs . We’ll need to see the final text which may not be available until next week.

So I've managed to finagle a pass to the European Parliament vote on #article11 and #article13 tomorrow, and with some luck, I will be livetweeting it for EFF. It'll be at 10:30AM CET at @EFFlive@twitter.com. I'm sorry I didn't set up a Mastodon feed, but it's 3AM here now, and I've been kind of busy 😴

I know most of the debate on #Article13 and #Article11 has been on a pretty abstract level in the past few days, but if you want a deeper analysis of where we are, and how we got here, Julia Reda's interview today is great: http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2018/06/18/julia-reda-discusses-current-proposal-directive-copyright-digital-single-market/

I'm in Brussels for the #Article13/#Article11 vote and it's always interested to see how my social media reading shifts with the timezone change. Hello people from Europe, I missed you.