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Memes ‘will be banned’ under new EU copyright law, warn campaigners
New Times ^
| June 17, 2018
| Agencies
Posted on 06/19/2018 6:36:20 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:36:20 AM PDT
by
EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
The EU loves it some tyranny.
Why let fascism take over by force when you can do it through the ballot box?
All the lives lost in WW II for nothing. Fascism and antisemitism are almost where they would be had Hitler and Mussolini won.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:39:38 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))
To: EdnaMode
That should shut down the left wing media....if applied objectively......
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:40:04 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: EdnaMode
Banning memes is much worse than separating children from parents at the border.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:42:28 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
To: EdnaMode
The law would destroy the internet as we know it warn the campaigners, who add it would allow big companies to control what we see and do online. Well, duh............................that's what it is for!...................
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:45:11 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: EdnaMode
So this homage meme will be banned by the great EU on the basis of copyright? Colour me copywronged and yet another reason to tell the EU to STFU!
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:47:17 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: EdnaMode
They want to ban Memes because its a form of free speech that cant be censored or searched by automated routines seeking key words.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:49:08 AM PDT
by
seastay
To: freedumb2003
All the lives lost in WW II for nothing.You really cant say that until the last chapter in history is written. And we don't keep peace or defeat evil in the world without some cost (usually in blood). There is now and has been for my entire life conflict between good and evil all over the globe. I cant think of a time when you could not find more than a dozen armed conflicts going on at any time. The sacrifices made by the greatest generation in WWII led to the rise of the greatest nation on this planet and inspired the best mankind has had to offer so far. None of us can be complacent about keeping that light lit.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:49:58 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: EdnaMode
Memes are powerful? Good to know.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:50:53 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: freedumb2003
Anti-muslim memes will result in the death penalty for the creator.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:52:48 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: EdnaMode
Is this like patents - if I'm first to copyright a meme, I own it?
I'm going to stake a claim on perhaps the best meme going - funny as heck - trigglypuff.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:52:58 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
To: EdnaMode
Okay, time for Tuvalu to ramp up its web hosting business. Russia might want to get in on the action, too.
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:54:10 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: EdnaMode
They want to keep Alinsky’s rule #5 from being applied to them. “”Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.””
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:57:55 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( Tagline disabled.)
To: C210N
LMAO! Thanks for that, best meme I’ve ever ripped off!
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posted on
06/19/2018 6:59:50 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: EdnaMode
Memes are the little man's editorial cartoon:
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:00:47 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: EdnaMode
I literally HATE the word ‘meme.’ It was made up by an atheist in 1967.
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:02:06 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(RIP T.P.)
To: EdnaMode
I think I fell afoul of this recently. I had moved images from Photobucket to postimages. A couple of days ago I got banned for terms of use violation. Their site is screwed up and the Contact Us link doesn’t work so I haven’t been able to get an explanation. I’m pretty sure no images were copyrighted so I’m assuming PC squeamishness is the reason.
To: C210N
Hahaha, I love it!!! The trigglypuff meme is hilarious. I guess you do own it. :D
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:04:28 AM PDT
by
EdnaMode
To: Slyfox
Memes are like political cartoon templates, whose message can transcend language and cultural barriers + rapidly evolve to keep the message they convey fresh and effective.
They are just as powerful as the days of Thomas Nast’s political cartoons v. Boss Tweed, who said that they were he biggest headache because even though his machine depended on illiterate immigrants in the slums of NYC, they all can look at Nast’s drawings and immediately understand the message.
To: VanDeKoik
I remember the days when I would write a letter to the editor and I "might" get a letter back saying that they either have decided to run my letter or they decided not to. Either way I had to go through someone else to share my political idea.
Now with the Internet, we are not beholden to some smarmy-assed editor.
And, ya don't have to go to art school to do editorial cartoons.
What a great freaking time to be alive!
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posted on
06/19/2018 7:18:28 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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