EFF: New European Copyright Enforcement Plans Loom Large Even as Users Revolt Against Filter Proposal
New European Copyright Enforcement Plans Loom Large Even as Users Revolt Against Filter Proposal Today EFF joined over 80 groups in writing once again [PDF] to European politicians about disastrous new EU copyright proposals. Along with human and digital rights organizations, media freedom organizations, publishers, journalists, libraries, scientific and research institutions, educational institutions including universities, creator representatives, consumers, software developers, start-ups, technology businesses and Internet service providers, we wrote to share our respectful but serious concerns that discussions in the Council and European Commission on the Copyright Directive are on the verge of causing irreparable damage to our fundamental rights and freedoms, our economy and competitiveness, our education and research, our innovation and competition, our creativity and our culture. Since we last wrote about these copyright discussions, the LIBE (Civil Liberties) comm...