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YouTube starts issuing community guidelines strikes on playlists
YouTube issued a community guidelines strike against Sheila Allen for a playlist which contained videos from other creators and none of her own content.
UK political commentator Carl Benjamin announces UKIP MEP campaign and says he will work to rescind Article 13
The political commentator also said he will challenge all manifestations of radical leftism as he finds them and expose them to the public via his YouTube channel so the public can see what EU officials are doing behind closed doors.
PewDiePie signs exclusive deal with decentralized blockchain-based live streaming platform DLive
PewDiePie’s first stream will be on April 14 and he says that he’ll be streaming on DLive “very frequently.”
r/Piracy deletes 10 years of posts after Reddit Legal threatens to ban the subreddit
Reddit Legal said that the subreddit was generating too many copyright infringement notices and would be banned if it didn’t address the problem, despite claims that many of these notices were false.
Article 13 and Article 11 last vote confirmed for April 15
This is the last chance to stop Articles 11 (the link tax) and 13 (the meme ban/upload filter) of the EU Copyright Directive. If Germany, Sweden, or the UK oppose the Directive in the EU Council, there may be further negotiations and amendments before it’s passed.
“Giant copyright troll” Getty Images is being sued for trying to copyright public domain images
But beyond this, Getty is accused of selling non-existing public domain copyright licenses – with the goal of convincing customers “into thinking the company owns the copyrights of all images it sells.”
How there’s a chance Article 13 could still be stopped
Much hope hinges on Sweden and Germany.
Paris’s High Court has ordered French ISPs to block access to the pirate libraries LibGen and Sci-Hub
Tribunal de Grande Instance asked several of the largest French ISPs; Orange, SFR, Free, and Bouygues Telecom to wholly block access to Sci-Hub and LibGen within a year.
European lawmakers lied when they said that the Article 13 “upload filter” was just a myth
They changed their tune as soon as the vote was passed.
Prosecutors want key figures of the infamous copyright troll company Prenda Law firm to over a decade in jail
Members of the firm uploaded torrents of copyrighted pornographic material to the Pirate Bay sharing website with the goal of luring “pirates” into downloading this content, TorrentFreak is reporting.
Article 13 has been approved by the European Parliament
The EU Copyright Directive, which includes Articles 11 and 13, was approved by 348 votes to 274 and the final text will now be sent to the EU Council for approval.
Article 11 and 13 final vote: Everything you need to know
MEP Julia Reda has released a full breakdown of how the voting process will work, how it’s likely to go, and what the future implications of this March 26 vote could be.