You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.
We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Todaywe take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.
The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment.
Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.
If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.
Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality.
If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content.
You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.
You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.
You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.
Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!
We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.
And if we’re getting all our content blocked?
You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.
You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read – simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.
So do whatever you can to help us stop this.
Reblog this.
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE
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reblogging again because our govern is shit please help us
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This is my first time posting in my blog, somehow feels weird.
But this situation must be communicated.
I’m a UNAM student.
If you don’t know UNAM university, it’s supposed to be the best university in Mexico and Latinoamerica.
This university is public, my tuition is just 50 cent per year, the university aslo has autonomy from the government, because of this no policmen or military can enter to the UNAM instalations, so UNAM have its own Private Security.
Right now almost ALL the students comunity is in a strike caused because all the violent situation that have been taking place outsite and inside of its intalations.
Last year two policemen attacked a ENP studient, they ruined his life, has I know this guy has permanent brain damage.
One student from CCH disappeared, another one kidnapped and later found burned.
A CCH principal demanding money to students when she has no right to do it.
And other situations that have been forgotten through the time.
Two students from ENP6 and Phylosophy School on critical state in diferent hospitals after being attacked on Pacific manifestationthat took place last monday inside the CU campus.
There’s rumors about the UNAM authorities sending violent organisations to stop this manifestation through attacks to the students comunity.
Authorities are not doing something to change this situation.
Has a comunity we are tired of not being listened, this situation must change.
Today all the school in strike are doing a meeting in front of the Authority Building to demand better security in the instalations.
Other universities of the country have expressed theirs solidarity towars the UNAM comunity decision.
All of them are afraid of being hurt, but the will to make a change is stronger than fear.
This caused my insurance to go up about $100!! Meaning I now owe $700 by September 15!!!
It’s not all bad news,
On my own I’ve gotten over half way there but I could really use some extra help!! Please commission me if you can! Or send me a Ko-fi, or even just spread this version of the post!! I’m sorry I keep reblogging this but I’m in really dire straights right now, Thank you for reading!! Please ask or send me a message if you have any questions/concerns!!
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