Memes ‘will be banned’ under new EU copyright law, warn campaigners

A new copyright law from the European Union would lead to the banning of memes on the internet, campaigners are warning.

The EU Copyright Directive intends to protect the intellectual property rights of people who upload their material to the internet.

However, campaigners are warning the law will require “all content uploaded to the internet to be monitored and potentially deleted if a likeness to existing copyright is protected”.

The campaign against a particular provision of the directive, Article 13, warns that online platforms would be economically damaged if they were forced to comply with its expensive obligations.

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”.

Essentially, the campaigners are arguing the stringent copyright protections of Article 13 would damage the sharing of parody content and memes which, while themselves being original and creative works, are often developed from other people’s original content.

We couldn’t find it without Nick Beef on the phone. The headstones are flat, as you probably noticed. They were towards the left after leaving the office/chapel/entrance area, maybe halfway in. I remember them being between the cemetery road and the property fence. Not sure if I could find them again if I tried. It was many years ago and my ex was on the phone with Nick, not me. Not sure what directions he was giving her.

Soros has talked about his time helping his father accumulate Jewish goods of those who had just been sent to concentration camps. He did a rather frank interview a number of years ago on 60 Minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyczwuTQfo

60 Minutes: You’re a Hungarian Jew…
Soros: Mm-hmm.
60 Minutes: Who escaped the Holocaust…
Soros: Mm-hmm.
60 Minutes: By — by posing as a Christian.
Soros: Right.
60 Minutes: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Soros: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.
60 Minutes: In what way?
Soros: That one should think ahead. One should understand and — and anticipate events and when — when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a — a very personal experience of evil.
60 Minutes: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Soros: Yes. Yes.
60 Minutes: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Soros: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
60 Minutes: I mean, that’s — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Soros: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t — you don’t see the connection. But it was — it created no — no problem at all.
60 Minutes: No feeling of guilt?
Soros: No.

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