EFF: EFF’s Letter to the EU’s Copyright Directive Negotiators
EFF’s Letter to the EU’s Copyright Directive Negotiators Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation sent the note below to every member of the EU bodies negotiating the final draft of the new Copyright Directive in the “trilogue” meetings. The note details our grave misgivings about the structural inadequacies and potential for abuse in the late-added and highly controversial Articles 11 and 13, which require paid licenses for links to news-sites (Article 11) and censoring public communications if they match entries in a crowdsourced database of copyrighted works. # I write today on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to raise urgent issues related to Articles 11 and 13 of the upcoming Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, currently under discussion in the Trilogues. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovatio...