Internet 2.0 - What does it meme?

EU Untangled

News, Politics

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ever since the World Wide Web gave us all access to the Internet, it has fundamentally changed our communications, businesses, services and even politics. Now, policies are trying to catch up, and the Internet as we know it may be about to change for good. The European Union’s Parliament has approved a new legislation to address copyright issues in the digital era. We interview the man pushing for this regulation to kick in. MEP Axel Voss helps us untangle the reasons, the ambition and the challenges of trying to regulate the Internet. Are these measures a threat to freedom of speech online or a necessary intervention to level the playing field for copyright holders?

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0:00.0	Technology often runs ahead of legislation and the European institutions are doing their very best to catch up.
0:06.0	In today's world, online news aggregators and social media platforms play an ever-increasing role in the way that news, articles, videos, music, and even paintings and pictures are accessed and shared all over the globe.
0:19.0	That's why, last September 12th, the European Parliament approved the European Union Directive
0:24.9	on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
0:27.7	The vote came after months of heated debates.
0:30.6	Originally proposed by the European Commission in 2016, this directive aims at bringing
0:35.7	the relevant legislation up to speed with digital developments across the EU.
0:40.4	The European institutions are worried that European right holders and creators are not getting their fair share of the profits that online platforms make when allowing for their original works to be accessed, shared and distributed online.
0:52.1	The directive also aims at making platforms directly responsible for the legality of the content
0:57.5	uploaded by their users.
0:59.7	Now, however, different groups have voiced out serious concerns.
1:04.1	They fear that the costs and the unintended consequences might outweigh the benefits.
1:09.7	The criticism came not only from EU parliamentarians,
1:12.6	but also from tech leaders and small entrepreneurs. The criticism was so strong that it caused
1:18.2	an earlier version of the copyright directive to be rejected at the European Parliament in July,
1:23.6	sending it back to the Legal Affairs Committee for amendments. The version approved by the Parliament last September is now being discussed and negotiated in a trialogue
1:31.9	between the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Council.
1:35.8	A decisive vote in the European Parliament to approve the final version of the directive is expected in early 2019.
1:43.2	Now, similar reforms at the national level have backfired before in Germany and Spain.
1:48.3	With the directive at the EU level to later be incorporated into the national legislations of the EU member states,
1:54.5	the stakes and the implications are much higher today.
1:57.8	One thing is certain.
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