#eucopyrightdirective — Public Fediverse posts

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

EU prepares to give new rights to live streaming sites, to the detriment of the Internet and its users

At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the dispiriting saga of how the EU Copyright Directive came into being. It began in early 2013 with the usual “stakeholder dialogue”, in which the European Commission sought the views of the various constituencies affected. It generated an unprecedentedly large response that was surprising given the dry and […]

#blocking #cloudflare #consultation #dns #eu #euCopyrightDirective #euipo #europeanCommission #germany #italy #laliga #liveStreaming #piracyShield #spain #sportsStreaming #transparency #US #vpns #wipo

https://walledculture.org/eu-prepares-to-give-new-rights-to-live-streaming-sites-to-the-detriment-of-the-internet-and-its-users/

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”. The campaign Web site explained:

Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI models.

Publishers and creators say that doing […]

#creators #dailies #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #journalists #linkTax #newspapers #optOut #publishers #ratchet #snippetTax #sustainability #tax #theft #training #uk

https://walledculture.org/yes-lets-make-it-fair-by-recognising-that-copyright-has-failed-to-reward-creators-properly/

Penguin Random House hopes copyright bluster will scare off generative AI

As Walled Culture has reported, a number of major publishers have brought legal actions against generative AI companies, alleging copyright infringement. These cases are still grinding through the courts, but one publisher, Penguin Random House – one of the so-called “Big Five” publishing houses that dominate the industry worldwide – is not simply sitting back and waiting for the […]

#bluesky #brexit #creativity #dsm #euCopyrightDirective #freedomOfExpression #genai #generativeAi #intellectualMonopoly #penguin #publishing #statuteOfAnne #training #uk

https://walledculture.org/penguin-random-house-hopes-copyright-bluster-will-scare-off-generative-ai/

German court: LAION’s generative AI training dataset is legal thanks to EU copyright exceptions

The copyright world is currently trying to assert its control over the new world of generative AI through a number of lawsuits, several of which have been discussed previously on Walled Culture. We now have our first decision in this area, from the regional court in Hamburg. Andres Guadamuz has provided an excellent detailed analysis of a ruling that is important for the German judges’ […]

#aiAct #andresGuadamuz #copyrightException #datasets #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #germany #Hamburg #laion #nonCommercial #research #tdm #textAndDataMining #training

https://walledculture.org/german-court-laions-generative-ai-training-dataset-is-legal-thanks-to-eu-copyright-exceptions/

The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry

It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many […]

#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers

https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/

Money talks in the world of copyright legislation, and that’s a big problem for ordinary Internet users

Copyright has always been about money. That’s why the copyright industry fights so hard to strengthen legal protections, in order to boost its profits. However, getting detailed information about how much money is involved, and who receives it, is hard, because there are so many small pieces to the overall copyright ecosystem. That makes a long post exploring money …

#euCopyrightDirective #LawrenceLessig #lobbying #musicIndustry #musicStreaming #napster #P2P #ugc #uk #userGeneratedContent

https://walledculture.org/money-talks-in-the-world-of-copyright-legislation-and-thats-a-big-problem-for-ordinary-internet-users/

Another German Court Says The DNS Service Quad9 Is Implicated In Any Copyright Infringement At The Domains It Resolves

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/08/another-german-court-says-the-dns-service-quad9-is-implicated-in-any-copyright-infringement-at-the-domains-it-resolves/

#eucopyrightdirective #digitalservicesact #switzerland #sonymusic #article17 #copyright #felixreda #liability #germany #hamburg #leipzig #quad9 #wifi #dns

Another German Court Says The DNS Service Quad9 Is Implicated In Any Copyright Infringement At The Domains It Resolves

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/08/another-german-court-says-the-dns-service-quad9-is-implicated-in-any-copyright-infringement-at-the-domains-it-resolves/

#eucopyrightdirective #digitalservicesact #switzerland #sonymusic #article17 #copyright #felixreda #liability #germany #hamburg #leipzig #quad9 #wifi #dns

Make no mistake, FB and the rest of the corporate tech giants will do their best to make any internet rules - national or international - work in their favour, and make life hard for smaller players. Just as they have with the #EUCopyrightDirective. But it's also an opportunity for tech activists and civil society groups to do the opposite, and get rules on things like #Dataportability in #OpenFormats, that empower users to transition from the#DataFarms to community-scale #EthicalTech platforms.