On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 12:22:47 +0200
Anders Hellquist <lau(a)hellquist.net> wrote:
My understanding is the the proposed changes are
like copyright on
steroids. You can not link to articles, files of sites unless you have
explicit permission to do so..
That is in my mind the end of the internet as
concept and a change
towards only controlled sites can provide information.
Let's take a use case to illustrate. If Sound on Sound magazine does
not object to having a public article of theirs being freely shared,
who will then enforce the restriction despite the authors' will and on
what basis ?
The respective country's bilateral partner of the copyright society that
Sound on Sound had to sign a contract with in order to get into standard
distribution channels. The artists' will in concrete matters of
copyright is of rather marginal importance since they have to sign a
significant part of their rights over in order to get coverage. If the
artists would in any manner be a driving force of copyright enforcement,
extending copyright beyond their death would be absurd rather than a
powerful asset in the hand of the media industry.
--
David Kastrup