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Article 13 will not let Amazon sell books that were pirated (ie. re-uploaded) and claim everything is fine. They do didn't wanted to fix it so now they will be forced to.

For Joe blogger there is proportionality (https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art_13_unoff... - 4a). And if Joe blogger decides to open comment section then he should read it every so often.

If not then this Harry Potter excerpt would be hard to find among spam overflowing comment section.



So, merely deleting a comment is enough? But that’s what we had before. Aren’t you required to have some kind of upload filter so that copyrighted material never ends up in your comments in the first place?


>So, merely deleting a comment is enough? But that’s what we had before.

This, and the successfulness of GDPR, is why I'm so doubtful over the problems presented about Article 13.


You are ignoring "proportionality" part and "not liable if" part. Yes EU regulators wouldn't be chasing small blogs just like they do not do it with GDPR regulations.

Big boys like Amazon wouldn't be able to get away with this shit (ends up on HN regularly):

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/268109-an-update-on-my-... https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/01/02/amazon-s...

Now you tell me how do you make Amazon and similar not to profit off scam? Ask them nicely? Doesn't work.


In debates like this, I tend to mention that UK law has prison time for commercial copyright infringement.

Not being a lawyer, I have no idea how hard it is for a prosecutor to get that outcome.

(So far as opinion, I would like copyright duration reduced to 7 years from publication, but suspect it is easier to make a human-level-creative AI then to change the law).


How would you automatically distinguish between copyrighted material and parody/satire/fair use?

Google seems to have had such a hard time doing so that it has the appearance that they've given up


The Amazon example is not exactly related to the current issue and copyright violation already exists in law.

> Now you tell me how do you make Amazon and similar not to profit off scam?

The fact that they're selling a plagiarized book is grounds for a lawsuit from the author.


For the GDPR, only the regulator can sue. Everyone else can only complain to the regulator. This minimizes the number of possible suits.

For article 13, everybody can sue. And copyright already has lows like grannies without internet ending up in a court for alleged file sharing.

the 2 laws are not even remotely comparable.




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