EFF: This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13 With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we’re told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 27 March , and the vote will happen at 1200h CET ), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That’s why today’s announcement by Poland’s Platformy Obywatelska —the second-largest party in the European People’s Party (EPP) bloc—is so important. Platformy Obywatelska has said that it will vote to block the entire Copyright Directive unless Article 13—a ground-breakingly terrible Internet law that will lead to widespread filtering of all Europeans’ Internet speech, images, and videos—is stricken from the final draft. EPP, a coalition of European national political parties, is the key backer of Article 13 and the largest party in the European Parliament. Without its support, Article 13 is very unlikely to make it through the final vote. The...