EU is weer op pad om internet te slopen met ‘Article 13’.
9 February 2019
20:45
”The likelihood of Article 13 being adopted across Europe has sharply risen again, following the breakdown of negotiations two weeks ago.”
And that’s exactly what they’ve done. The Franco-German deal was leaked yesterday and the compromise seems to have been made more by France than Germany.
”The previous stance of the French was that Article 13 should apply to all platforms, regardless of size while the Germans were in favour of it being applied to just the biggest of online companies.
The agreement, which is now enabling the trialogue negotiations to go ahead, will apply to every website unless it meets all of the following three conditions:
A startup that has been active for less than three years
A Website with an annual turnover below €10 million
A website with less than 5 million monthly unique visitors
Upload filters will have to be applied for every website that fails to meet the narrow exclusions above which are many of the mainstream sites and apps used today. If the notoriously erroneous upload filters were to became mandatory, sites such as YouTube have said that they will cease to allow uploads completely from the EU.”
