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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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</p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag>front-page</tag>
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<tag content="Save Code Share">savecodeshare</tag>
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<tag content="Open Letter">openletter</tag>
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<tag content="Copyright">copyright</tag>
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<tag content="Digital Single Market">digitalsinglemarket</tag>
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<tag content="Policy">policy</tag>
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