Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
It looks surprisingly reasonable.<p>&quot;internet platforms that organise and promote large amounts of copyright-protected works uploaded by their users in order to make a profit&quot;<p>That&#x27;s actually a lot of limitation. From my understanding: &quot;organise and promote&quot; means it is not simple hosting, and &quot;in order to make a profit&quot; excludes organizations like Wikimedia Commons and &quot;large amounts&quot; most likely excludes smaller websites like fan sites, and &quot;uploaded by their users&quot; exclude search engines.<p>It is clearly meant to target a form of abuse that is much too common in the &quot;internet as we know it&quot;. It is mostly apparent in sites like PornHub. They live by monetizing content they don&#x27;t have the rights for, and they use their status as a platform as a way to stay legal. I think YouTube admitted that in the early days, they voluntarily turned a blind eye to copyright infringement as a way to grow ahead of their competition.<p>It is unfair to legitimate companies who do their best to make sure their content really is original or properly licensed.<p>And if it changes the internet as we know it today, is it that bad? It will push people to self publish instead of relying on &quot;platforms&quot;, like the old internet.<p>As for the potential for abuse, remember that the article isn&#x27;t finished, it has yet to be completed, ratified, and tried. Public debate is important and we shall not let everything pass, but IMHO, the spirit is good.