EFF: Don’t Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots
Don’t Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots Three years ago, we warned of a string of dangerous new policy proposals on the horizon . Under these proposals, platforms would be forced to implement copyright bots that sniffed all of the media that users uploaded to them, deleting your uploads with no human review. It’s happening. The European Parliament is weeks away from a vote on Article 13 , which would force most platforms, services, and communities that host user uploads to install filters to block uploads that seem to match materials in a database of copyrighted works. If the filter detected enough similarity between your video and something from the list of copyrighted works, your video would be banned. Hollywood lobbyists have proposed similar measures here in the U.S. When platforms over-rely on automated filters to enforce copyright, users must cater their uploads to those filters. There’s a lot to say about the dangers of Article 13—how it would censor the whole world’s Inter...