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Julia Reda
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Julia Reda writes Felix Reda, a personal blog at juliareda.eu about politics, culture and writing. Since 2014, 112 different Hacker News readers have linked it 160 times, most often “EU commission report find that online piracy does not affect sales”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Linked for the EU copyright reform: the Article 11 and 13 votes, proposal texts and vote lists. One commenter calls her reform page the best resource for getting the facts right.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Does the Article 11/13 debate justice; explains the reform well; the best resource for the facts; a better source than others
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- EU commission report find that online piracy does not affect sales10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
- /eu-copyright-reform/8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-09-11
- EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-05-26
- Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-02-05
- /eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for-news-sites/5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-04-11
- Stopping the EU's plans for a news link tax and compulsory copyright filters5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-06
- The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-13
- Article 11 and 13 of the new EU Copyright Directive explained5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-07-02
- Article 13 Approved [pdf]5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-26
- /wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art_13_unofficial.pdf4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-02-21
What Hacker News says?
It requires a lot of knowledge of the context and some pretty hard work of crossreferencing several legislative texts to really get to what's going on here, although I think that the text by Julia Reda does it justice pretty well. https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/article-11-13-vote/ In what follows, I'll say a bit about Article 11, because it's the part of the debate that I have been following more closely, and the one…
Comment linking /2018/06/article-11-13-vote/
on “EU copyright law proposal rejected”Submitted Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe as a story · 547 points
HN discussionYeah sure - I bet if you live in a region where no company has bought exclusive television rights to F1. In my country, a pay channel owns exclusive rights to all F1 broadcasting, so all official F1 content on YouTube etc. is simply blocked here (shows the infamous "This content is not available in your country" error.) They have gone to great lengths to ensure the only way I can view live F1 GPs legally is to pay 2…
Comment linking /2018/02/eu-did-not-end-geoblocking/
on “EU copyright law proposal rejected”Submitted Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better as a story · 490 points
HN discussionPerhaps this will help you understand why the somewhat obscure and guarded legal language in the proposal is interpreted the way it is: https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/article-11-13-vote/ The upshot (wrt upload filters) is that the proposal makes platforms directly liable for the actions of their users. This follows from the text in the proposal where hosting user content is defined as an act of communication to the pu…
Comment linking /2018/06/article-11-13-vote/
on “EU copyright law proposal rejected”Submitted Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it as a story · 438 points
HN discussionCase in point: abuse of the DMCA ironically took down this[1] article titled "EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line". If we look at the DMCA notice[2], you'll see that the claim was made to Google that a song belonging to Real Housewives of Melbourne breakout act, Gamble Breaux, was used on the site. There is no such song on the page. Here's a few other sites that were taken off of Goo…
Comment linking /2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-finish-line/
on “EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’”Submitted The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink as a story · 421 points
HN discussionI think at least the intent is to avoid smaller businesses being hit too much. If the PDF ( https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Se... ) posted elsewhere in this discussion is accurate, Article 13 paragraph 3 was amended: > When defining best practices, special account shall be taken of fundamental rights, the use of exceptions and limitations as well as ensuring that the burden on SMEs remain a…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Sept12_Voss.pdf
on “EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’”Submitted The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised as a story · 354 points
HN discussion(Disclosure -- I work on this for EFF) You can read the recitals this commenter is describing here, including the latest amendments that were voted in the Parliamentary plenary. As you'd imagine, I disagree with his interpretation. https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Se... Firstly, these are just recitals. They're not a binding part of the Directive, they just lay out the justifications for the…
Comment linking /2018/09/copyright-sports-fans/
on “EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’”Submitted GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright as a story · 347 points
HN discussionWell this sucks a lot, but if I'm reading this right, they at least amended it to be _slightly_ less awful: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Se... It seems to contain a bunch of amendments that seem to make at least Article 13 a bit less draconian. In particular, 13.2b seems to require a human-reviewed and appealable complaints mechanism. All in all, it's still very shitty. I intend to save…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Sept12_Voss.pdf
on “EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’”Submitted EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line as a story · 305 points
HN discussionIf you follow Julia Reda's blog (she's MEP), you can get tons of insight into this issue in the EU parliament: https://juliareda.eu/2018/09/copyright-showdown/
Comment linking /2018/09/copyright-showdown/
on “EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’”Submitted France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights as a story · 277 points
HN discussionhttps://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/
Comment linking /eu-copyright-reform/
on “YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More”Submitted New EU law prescribes website blocking in the name of consumer protection as a story · 227 points
HN discussionUsing copyright works to train an AI may qualify as fair use, meaning the terms of any copyright licence can be ignored, as argued in this blog post by reference to the Google Books litigation: https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...
Comment linking /2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
on “All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot”Submitted Leaked: EU governments want to give record labels control over what we can post as a story · 211 points
HN discussionI absolutely agree with you that the current big LLMs enable an attack on all FOSS licenses and especially copyleft ones. That doesn't mean that one couldn't create LLM code generators in a respectful way. Do license analysis on the input code and then train separate models on the different license buckets, with the outputs from each model considered derivative works of the input corpus. Also I don't think a restric…
Comment linking /2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
on “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies”Submitted Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google as a story · 146 points
HN discussionJulia Reda has posted the raw data: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvot... It should be available on the site of the european parliament as well.
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvote.pdf
on “European Parliament approves copyright reform”Submitted Everyday things on the web the EU Commission wants to make illegal as a story · 89 points
HN discussionECR, ENF had votes in favour https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvot...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvote.pdf
on “European Parliament approves copyright reform”Submitted EU commission report find that online piracy does not affect sales as a story · 81 points
HN discussionis it democratic for most elected governments to keep pushing for legislature again and again, waiting a bit between attempts? Repeat it ad nauseam um 'till people get bored of protesting. Just a reminder that quite a lot of people are against second brexit referendum because repeating it would be undemocratic. Remember ACTA? how many times it was tried again and again under different name? The only ones who wanted…
Comment linking /2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/
on “European Parliament approves copyright reform”Submitted Net neutrality is a “Taliban-like issue”, says Europe’s top digital policymaker as a story · 63 points
HN discussionApparently, France happened to that: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/
Comment linking /2019/02/article-13-worse/
on “European Parliament approves copyright reform”Submitted In January, the EU Starts Running Bug Bounties on Free and Open Source Software as a story · 45 points
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