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Articoli Correlati: copyright

There are new discussions on the issue of the modernisation of copyright rules for the digital age. Artists and authors support the proposals, which have been debated for almost two years now. They believe the directive will protect their right to be remunerated fairly for their work. “Nowadays the main problem is that user product content platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc are not playing fair,” said Véronique Desbrosses, General Manager of the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers, “They are using loopholes in the law not to remunerate creators and yet they have become the main route to access cultural content on the Internet.” Contrarily, digital platforms are against Article 13 of the directive, which would require digital platforms, from newspapers to video-sharing sites, to proactively filter uploads in order to remove copyright infringements. Anna Mazgal, Wikimediàs EU Policy adviser, told the reason why this article could limit freedom of expression: “We are worried about the vast majority of users that have the right to use somebody else’s content because they make parodies, because they make political commentary, because they quote.”