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<title>EU Copyright Review: Tell Legislators to Save Code Share</title> |
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<h1>EU Copyright Review: Tell Legislators to Save Code Share</h1> |
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<p newsteaser="yes">The FSFE, together with Open Forum Europe, asks the |
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EU policymakers to Save Code Share in the current on-going EU Copyright review. |
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Today we ask you to support our newest campaign <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> |
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by signing an <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/#sign-letter">Open Letter</a> |
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addressed to the EU policymakers.In this letter we request EU legislators |
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to preserve the ability to collaboratively build software online in current |
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EU Copyright Directive proposal.</p> |
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<p>If the proposed changes targeted at online platforms are implemented, this would |
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force online code sharing repositories to use filters that monitor and |
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preemptively take down any content that could potentially infringe copyright, |
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including entire code repositories. Otherwise, platforms will be held |
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directly liable for any alleged copyright infringement found in the source code |
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hosted on their services. Such shift in the liability regime from |
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rightholders to platforms would durably harm the Free Software ecosystem |
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which often relies on code hosting platforms to build software together, |
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as it will result in more arbitrary code removal on code hosting |
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platforms.</p> |
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<h2>How does Article 13 harm Free Software?</h2> |
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<p>A lot of the software used in everyday life contains Free Software |
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components. Free Software is popular because it can be shared under |
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terms that allow and encourage using it for any purpose, studying its |
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source code, sharing it with others, and customising it according to |
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one's needs. Source code is often shared through online code hosting |
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platforms that act as a main access point for collaboration online.</p> |
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<p>The current legislative negotiations over the EU "Copyright Reform" |
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package, and particularly Article 13, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170908-01.en.html">indicate</a> |
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that we risk seeing the imposition of far-reaching rules for every online |
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platform which allows their users to upload large amounts of content, |
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including code hosting platforms. Specifically, the proposals embodied |
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in the draft of Article 13 threaten code hosting platforms by imposing |
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new obligations on them. Namely, code hosting platforms will be legally |
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required to use costly (but ultimately fundamentally flawed) filtering |
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technologies. There are no known filtering technologies that could accurately |
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and reliably identify whether any Free Software is being shared in |
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accordance with its legal terms and conditions. In addition, the proposed |
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Article 13 will oblige online platforms to monitor their users and |
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actively seek for possible copyright infringements.</p> |
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<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;"><a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/"> |
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<img src="/news/2017/graphics/git_push_savecode.png" alt="git_push_savecode" /></a> |
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</div> |
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<p>Consequently, Article 13, as currently proposed, would shift the |
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responsibility for protecting allegedly infringed rights from rightholders |
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to platforms in a way that disproportionately harms the sector that is |
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a cornerstone of innovation.</p> |
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<p>Article 13 would restrict the freedom of developers to choose freely |
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among a variety of software components and tools, as these tools and |
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components will no longer be available online. In a domino effect, Free |
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Software projects could no longer rely upon precedent projects and tools |
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due to an arbitrary upload filter that can prevent code being hosted online. |
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As a consequence, software will become less reliable, and digital infrastructure |
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less resilient for everybody.</p> |
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<h2>Take Action Now</h2> |
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<p>Please <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">sign and share the Open Letter</a> |
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both on behalf of an organisation, and as an individual. The Open Letter |
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together with your signatures will be handed over to the Members of the |
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European Parliament and the EU Council. For more information on how |
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proposed Article 13 would harm fundamental rights and negatively impact |
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collaborative software development and Free Software, please <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">read our White Paper</a>. |
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