The fight to save your internet is not over.
Article 13 still needs to go through a few more processes to be passed.
I’m going to tell you whats about to happen in the coming months, and what you can do
to save your internet, right now on IO.
Hey there whats up, I’m charlotte dobre, I feel like youtubers always ask you whats
up but they don’t genuinely mean it so tell me, whats up, how you doin, down there in
those comments.
By the way, this is inform overload, where we give you regular news updates on stories
that are actually relevant to you.
I thought it was important to give you an update on article 13, we haven’t talked
about it in a little bit and there are some big dates coming up this week and next so
I wanted to keep you in the loop.
If you haven’t seen our previous coverage on this topic, we’ll put a link up at the
top of the screen . Back in September, the majority of the European
partliament voted in favour of article 13.
It was passed 438 votes in favour, 226 against, and 39 abstenations.
If it is passed, the new copyright law will effectively ruin the internet as we know it.
How?
I’ll show you, with a meme.
This is a meme right now.
And this is what a meme will look like to many people under the next eu copyright law.
Basically, article 13 changes fair use, in that you cant use a copyrighted image without
paying the copyright holder.
Obviously people who make memes, or share memes are not going to pay the copyright holder
use images.
Article 13 will be a huge detrement to youtube, where the majority of the content uploaded
to this platform includes some form of copyrighted material.
Article 13 also makes the platform liable, which means that youtube is going to have
to use aggressive upload filters to scan content for copyrighted content and automatically
blocks it for users that are in the EU.
Here’s a timeline of what’s about to happen.
On January 18th – National governments vote on the councils position before the final
negotiations.
On January 21st parliament and council negotiate and put together a final text of the bill.
Some time in march or april, the final vote by the council will take place, and then lastly,
some time between march and april, there will be a final vote in the European parliament
According to most experts, and based on the fact that article 13 already passed a preliminary
vote back in September, article 13 will be passed.
Germany and Italy said that they are against article 13.
Germany wont vote yes to the bill unless small businesses are excluded.
The thing is, every polish member of the European parliament voted against it, but as it stands
right now, Poland supports the bill.
The good news is, if the vote does pass, each individual country in the European union has
to decide how they want to implement article 13.
But that’s also where this is going to get really messy.
Some countries might be more relaxed on article 13, other countries will implement it more
severely.
So what can you do?
There’s still time.
For those of you who are living in the EU, You can contact your Member state representatives
by going to saveyourinternet.eu.
Reach out to the minister in charge as well as the deputy permanent representatives.
Tell them they need to stop article 13 and vote against it in order to save the internet
as we know it.
Saveyourinternet.eu actually has links set up right on the page.
You can contact Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland and Belgium.
The link for that website is in the description, and once you’re on the page, click act now.
If you’re watching this video after January 18th or January 21st, its still worth your
time to contact your representatives.
The final vote is not for a few weeks.
If enough of us reach out and make our case, we can still change their minds by the time
the final vote comes around in the spring.
Ok guys that’s all I have for you on that, I’m going to wrap up this video with some
comment replies.
Furstrolight – how many people work on informationoverload.
Well theres me, theres Hayley, theres tessa our editor and sometimes Dylan.
But we have a whole office of people who work on different channels.
Dark Wolf – that moment when your second most used emoji is a potato.
Thanks io.
Im actually curious.
Why don’t you guys type your most used emoji in the comments.
Daniel Brown – I love the internet.
As do I, which is why you should hashtag saveyourinternet.
Dick tracy – charlotte every time I watch you I think of the moo challenge.
not surprising.
Insert a clip.
Mark n – bring back the comment dance plz.