This is very important:
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/
"Article 13 of the Copyright Directive will force internet platforms (social networks, video sites, image hosts, etc.) to install upload filters to monitor all user uploads for copyrighted content, including in images – and thus block most memes, which are usually based on copyrighted images.
(...)
It will come down to every single vote. (...) The NGO EDRi has made a list of key swing votes: https://edri.org/files/Copyright_JURI_MEPs_undecided.pdf."
This will affect #Fediverse.
Article 13 requires online platforms to filter content upon upload.
This is ridiculous - whether or not particular use of copyrighted content is legal tends to be a complicated matter, with years of court proceedings to establish that.
Expecing an algorithm to make a decision like this in a split second is asking for trouble.
So, here's a couple of decisions made by algorithms already used by YouTube for a very similar purpose.
You tell me if this makes sense.
1. NASA's Official Mars Landing Video Got Taken Off YouTube Over Bogus Copyright Claims
https://gizmodo.com/5932089/nasas-official-rover-landing-video-got-taken-off-youtube-over-bogus-copyright-claims
"The Curiosity Rover may have landed safely on the surface of Mars, but like all good things, it's not invulnerable to completely bogus takedown requests.
(...)[T]he video was rendered unavailable due to a copyright claim by Scripps Local News."
2. YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/2141246/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copyrighted-music
"I make nature videos for my YouTube channel, generally in remote wilderness away from any possible source of music. And I purposely avoid using a soundtrack in my videos because of all the horror stories I hear about Rumblefish filing claims against public domain music. But when uploading my latest video, YouTube informed me that I was using Rumblefish's copyrighted content"
3. YouTube Content ID is flawed for Classical Musicians
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141109004524-12070312-youtube-content-id-is-flawed-for-classical-musicians
"Content ID (...) often mismatches commercial classical recordings with original performances of the same classical music which are in the public domain. So when classical musicians post their original performances on YouTube, there will often be advertisements to monetize that video. The uploader is not the one who profits, but rather it's the record label that owns the rights to the commercial recording."
@rysiek the links to write a mail (or otherwise contact your MEP) are in the second comment, in case someone misses them in the article as I did.
@rysiek Exactly this happened to Valentina Lisitsa. YouTube algorithm confused part of her performance with the recording of Glenn Gould. And guess what they did. They just removed 1.5 minutes of music right out of her performance.
https://www.wqxr.org/story/valentina-lisitsa-accidentally-made-youtube-think-shes-glenn-gould/
This is not just "flawed'. This is outrageous.
.@sullybiker fun fact #2: this uploaded Spiderman meme would get blocked under Article 13.
Call your MEP!
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/
@rysiek is it prudent for non-EU citizens to email? In other countries, representatives will ignore anything outside of their local populace.
@rysiek do you have specific advice for non-citizen residents of the EU? Or can we call too?
@rysiek Your very own profile picture needs to be deleted under this law!
And how does an individual like me hosting a Mastodon instance have the resources to implement a content filter like YouTube's? Is this a great way of outlawing decentralization and making it impossible for small players to get into content hosting websites?
I don't even know how that would work, technically. Is there a central database of copyrighted images against which to compare? Couldn't sysops override the filter in cases of Fair Use (or even ignore it by default)? How is posting a still image on social media not automatically Fair Use anyway?
@njoseph exactly. The only way this could work is by Google providing an API (paid, of course!) to their Content ID thing, I guess. And everyone using it.
What a great idea. Not.
@Michcioperz https://edri.org/files/Copyright_JURI_MEPs_undecided.pdf
Got posted with some additional characters in the link for some reason. Sorry.
@rysiek what if the servers are outside the EU?
@rysiek who can vote?
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
I have sent e-mails to the MEPs. Have you?
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/
Every e-mail counts. I know this, because years ago I was an activist fighting similar odds on the ground: http://rys.io/en/70
So send your e-mails, call your MEPs. Block Article 11 and Article 13 of the Copyright Directive.