Article 3TZYV The MEP behind Europe's proposed copyright censorship proposal can't explain all the copyrighted images in his social media

The MEP behind Europe's proposed copyright censorship proposal can't explain all the copyrighted images in his social media

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Cory Doctorow
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Axel Voss is the German MEP responsible for Article 13 of the pending EU Copyright Directive, which says that it's not good enough for companies to remove infringing material posted by users once they're notified of its existence; instead, Voss wants then to spend hundreds of millions of dollars implementing automated filters that prevent anyone from posting copyrighted material in the first place (even if they have the right to do so under fair dealing, and even if that means that a lot of legitimate material gets accidentally blocked). (more")

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