Hi Pyb,
this is whole initiative is completely bonkers, but with the current
government here nothing comes as a surprise anymore.
Currently, WMAT would not be affected by the law (in case it passes) as
we are under the 500,000 EUR annual return limit. However, this might
change in the future - the year we hosted the Hackathon and with the
additional funds we handled we came very near that limit.... Regardless
of the status of the local chapter, Wikimedia projects would definitely
be subject to this policy, how they would enforce it however is not
entirely clear. Some of our netpoliticial partner organisations in
Austria, fight the current draft, we try to support them as best as we
can with the limited resources we have.
Claudia
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Does someone have more information about what is going on in Austria
with anonymity?
Pyb
Le 2019-04-30 12:53, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov a écrit :
tl;dr
The regulation on preventing online dissemination
of
terrorist content, as well as a general restructuring of the
intermediary protection rules, will be two hot topics for the next
European Commission and Parliament after the elections. Copyright is a
wrap and it is now up to the Member States to transpose it.
This
and previous reports on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor
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TERREG
On April 17th, after 8 months since the European
Commission first presented its
version of the "Regulation on Preventing
the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online" (TERREG), the Civil
Liberties (LIBE) committee report was adopted by the European
Parliament. [1] Let's recap: the EC planned an overhaul of free speech
under blurry definitions and unproportionate measures. Two Parliamentary
Committees - Internal Market (IMCO) and Culture (CULT) - presented much
better versions of the regulation. The lead LIBE, at first, presented a
version retracting the positive thinking. Then, thanks to the work of
some of the shadow rapporteurs and civil society input, the the final
report offered some mitigation.
---
The parliamentary vote
[2] means that the rapporteur is going to the trilogues
with a text that
does not include referrals, has no proactive measures (at least not
mandated by law) and provides for some judicial oversight on removal
orders. Content mentioned in an order, however, will need to be removed
within 1 hour of receiving it. An attempt to change it failed by 3 votes
in the plenary.
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Next stage, the Trilogues, are expected
to happen in the Fall. It can also be
expected that the European
Commission will want to bring back the referrals and proactive measures
into the final text. So our work with that file is far from done.
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> Copyright
> Two weeks ago the Council gave
the final "green light" for the Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Directive. [3] In the end Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, the Netherlands,
Sweden and Finland voted against, while Belgium, Estonia and Slovenia
abstained (which has the same effect as voting against). Still, the
necessary double majority was reached.
> ---
> The final text
[4] will soon be published in the Official Journal of the EU and from
that date on Member States will have 24 months to transpose it into
national law. The European Commission has stated that they would like to
work on non-binding best practice implementation guidelines for Article
17 (formerly Article 13, the one with upload filters). We expect most
Member States to participate and make use of them. Procedure and
timeline are still to be announced. In the meanwhile, it looks like
France is keen on transposing the Directive without additional delays.
The Estonian government has asked stakeholders about their views on
implementation. Did you hear about your government doing something in
this regard already? Please let us know!
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E-Commerce Directive Reform
We may consider it as certain that the
next European Commission will propose a reform of the E-Commerce
Directive, most likely turning it into a Regulation. This means that
intermediary liability will be directly discussed and redrawn during the
next legislative term. So upload filters, deletions, stay-downs are
going to be a central topic. We need to have a positive vision for what
a regime change may look like in order to be a serious stakeholder in
the debates. If you would like to join a working group this, please let
us know!
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> BIG FAT BRUSSELS MEETING
The Big Fat Brussels Meeting will be on 1-2 June, the weekend after the
EP elections. We will be setting up our transposition work and will be
making plans of how to reach out the newly elected MEPs. If you want to
attend, but can't afford the travel, please let us know! [5]
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[2]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2019-0421_EN.pdf
[3]
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