An ag(e)ing hacker - posts tagged as "copyright"

Thanks for fighting against the European copyright directive — 2018-09-11 21:50 Updated: 2021-11-18 17:48

As I am writing this, the European Parliament is debating the disastrously liberticide copyright Directive. After out previous mailing campaign (The European Parliament has voted against the copyright directive, for now (<https://blog.ageinghacker.net/posts/20>)) organized along with a group of GNU friends, we again contacted the Members of the European Parliament before the forthcoming vote. I wish to name all the people who helped by translating the text into several languages and improve it, working tirelessly and with very little time: Christopher Dimech, Yavor Doganov, Rafael Fontenelle, Alexandre Garreau, Bruno Haible, José Marchesi, Tom Uijldert. Thank you all, friends. Update: we failed. [...] Read more

The European Parliament has voted against the copyright directive, for now — 2018-07-06 00:47 Updated: 2022-10-29 02:03

The EU copyright directive in its present form has deep and wide implications reaching far beyond copyright, and erodes into core human rights and values. For more information I recommend Julia Reda’s analysis at <https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/>, which is accessible to the casual reader but also contains pointers to the text of the law. Today on June 5, following a few weeks of very intense debate, campaigning and lobbying including deliberate attempts to mislead politicians (<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180703/16343340172/>), the European Parliament voted in plenary session to reject the directive in its current form endorsed by the JURI committee, and instead reopen the debate. It [...] Read more