Save Code Share [EU new copyright legislation could hurt collaboration]

[Aumaan_Anubis]

this is loosely UE4 related, at least to some of you coders out there, just thought I’d bring this up if no one’s mentioned it yet.

The EU is preparing new copyright legislation that will force automated copyright infringement checking for all code that’s shared online. Many Open Source organizations are worried about the implications, and the Free Software Foundation Europe has launched an on-line campaign against it. Please read and sign it!

The EU is getting ready to vote a “Copyright Reform” package which fundamentally undermines the foundations upon which Free and Open Source Software is built. The proposed Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive targets every online service that allows its users to upload and share content with each other, including code hosting platforms.

Under this proposal code hosting platforms will be compelled to prevent any possible copyright infringement by developing fundamentally flawed filtering technologies. These filtering algorithms will ultimately decide what material software developers should be allowed to share.

As a result of this ongoing copyright review, every user of a code sharing platform, be they an individual, a business or a public administration, is to be treated as a potential copyright infringer: their content, including entire code repositories, will be monitored and blocked from being shared online at any time. This restricts the freedom of developers to use specific software components and tools that in return leads to less competition and less innovation. Ultimately this can result in software that is less reliable and a less resilient software infrastructure for everybody.

Link

• Save Code Share campaign

The EU copyright lobby wants us to use filter algos to determine what we can share. Sign FSFE petition here: https://savecodeshare.eu/ #b3d](https://twitter.com/hashtag/b3d?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw)

— Ton Roosendaal (@tonroosendaal) October 3, 2017

[non-Blender] Save Code Share

[BrUnO_XaVIeR]

Europe is a really weird place to live.

[Konflict]

“Ambiguously worded and inconsistent”, “Incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights”, “Incompatible with existing EU law”. This last one is my favorite

I don’t think they gonna pull this off. It’s just another “smoke and mirrors” kind of bs to take away the attention from something more important thing they do behind the scenes.

[EvanX (Evan)]

@BrUnO_XaVIeR

Europe is a really weird place to live.

You are confusing Europe with the EU. They are not the same.

[Zeblote]

It really is weird. For every good regulation like GDPR they follow up with a completely insane one like this.