Dear all,
It seems to me that all researchers using the Internet should care about copyright legislation that affects what we can and cannot do online. European researchers using the Internet should be specifically concern about the Article 17 (ex Article 13).
Many of us believe the current proposals that are being discussed would negatively impact researchers, creators and users’ fundamental freedoms.
There wouldn't be any academic in the digital humanities (based in Europe or not) who would not be impacted in some way by this piece of legislation.
Some resources below:
For background: What is Article 13? (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47239600#
Read more about the possible impact of Article 17 (ex Article 13): https://saveyourinternet.eu/?noredirect=true#impact
Final copyright vote: MEPs must choose to save the internet (Open Knowledge Foundation blog) https://blog.okfn.org/2019/03/26/final-copyright-vote-meps-must-choose-to-sa...
I just signed the petition "European Parliament: Stop the censorship-machinery! Save the Internet!" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
The goal is to reach 6,000,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-s...
As I write this, 5.1 million signatures have been collected.
MEPs vote to approve or reject #Article17 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Article17 [ex Art. 13]* today *26 March at 12h30.
Last minute action still welcome! saveyourinternet.eu https://t.co/j0Tkkx0o9m #SaveTheInternet https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SaveTheInternet
Thank you for considering this message!
All the best,
Ernesto
@ernestopriego http://epriego.blog/ https://epriego.wordpress.com/ The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Parables of Care: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/ Symbola Comics: https://figshare.com/collections/Symbola_Comics/4090025 Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Alas, "despite a petition with over 5 million signatures and scores of protests across Europe attended by tens of thousands of people, MEPs voted by 348 to 274 in favour of the changes". https://blog.okfn.org/2019/03/26/eu-copyright-vote-a-massive-blow-for-intern...
This kind of understanding of copyright will keep limiting the kind of research the Digital Humanities can do and the type of online platforms it can use to disseminate DH research, as if it weren't already highliy limited to public domain works...
Le sigh,
Ernesto
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 08:37, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
It seems to me that all researchers using the Internet should care about copyright legislation that affects what we can and cannot do online. European researchers using the Internet should be specifically concern about the Article 17 (ex Article 13).
Many of us believe the current proposals that are being discussed would negatively impact researchers, creators and users’ fundamental freedoms.
There wouldn't be any academic in the digital humanities (based in Europe or not) who would not be impacted in some way by this piece of legislation.
Some resources below:
For background: What is Article 13? (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47239600#
Read more about the possible impact of Article 17 (ex Article 13): https://saveyourinternet.eu/?noredirect=true#impact
Final copyright vote: MEPs must choose to save the internet (Open Knowledge Foundation blog) https://blog.okfn.org/2019/03/26/final-copyright-vote-meps-must-choose-to-sa...
I just signed the petition "European Parliament: Stop the censorship-machinery! Save the Internet!" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
The goal is to reach 6,000,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-s...
As I write this, 5.1 million signatures have been collected.
MEPs vote to approve or reject #Article17 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Article17 [ex Art. 13]* today *26 March at 12h30.
Last minute action still welcome! saveyourinternet.eu https://t.co/j0Tkkx0o9m #SaveTheInternet https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SaveTheInternet
Thank you for considering this message!
All the best,
Ernesto
@ernestopriego http://epriego.blog/ https://epriego.wordpress.com/ The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Parables of Care: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/ Symbola Comics: https://figshare.com/collections/Symbola_Comics/4090025 Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Ernesto Priego