RE: Fair Use Rules & Copyright Law in the US Coming Under Attack from Europe in 2019
"You have a point there. To defend your copyright on your own original works, your work's copyright has to be registered."
In the US maybe. DMCA is US american and only US american.
You dont need to register anything, you hold the copyright and can go after anyone who uses your work the moment you create it.
Of course you are going to have to proof that you are the author/photografer/musician/programmer in order to go after someone for that, problem is that article 13 makes the PLATTFORMS responsible and that can be very very expensive.
Now, imagine i take a picture of you, send it to you and you post it on facebook. Unless i gave you a license to publish my work, that is indeed copyright infringement and if i can proof that i took the picture i can go after you for that as it stands.
Now i could go after facebook for that. So they will have to prevent you from posting pictures you yourself took becouse how are they supposed to know that you are the one that took those pictures?
Gets even more crazy if you take a picture of say a book. You hold the copyright to that picture, but not neccessarily the copyright to the cover of said book. Even if you are the author you may not have designed the cover and as such there is a problem.
Same with pure text which can also be posted. How are theysupposed to know to what you do or dont hold the copyright?
They cant unless you take some of the steps you outlined in the beginning.And article 11 is whats often called a "linktax". Its not entirely accurate but if you show a short preview or even just use the headline, you have to pay. Some european nations did allready implement such a thing - leading to google news to end their service entirely in spain.
I know! It's insanity. It's going to send the internet back to the dark ages. No one benefits. The intention is to silence the masses, who seem to be learning far too quickly what the law-makers are doing and why they are doing it. The cost of running the surveillance and censorship protocols have already causes FB investors to drop stock. That's what happened on July 25, 2018. When the stockholders learned that to implement the protocols they asked for in the May annual general, in response to the April Congressional Hearing, they bailed within 2 hrs, even before the meeting was over. FB lost $120M in 2 hours. So, the law-makers are going to overburden big tech, if not absolutely destroy the platforms. I have a new post out that's along the same line...legislators killing the net with their regulations. This one makes their intentions crystal clear - destruction.
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