The European Parliament has advocated a new copyright regulation, which is commonly and somewhat hasty as ACTA 2. The new directive is rather supported by the artistic community, but it is sometimes of concern to ordinary users. The question is – why?
It's certainly about copyright protection. The new regulations are intended to require larger portals to share the profit of sharing, for example, musical works and other creative activities. Currently, there is a voluntary act in this area that facilitates the use of someone else's work and the taking of all the profit for themselves.
Large portals will be required to filter the content posted there by users in order to detect any content that does not have a proper license. Many Internet users may not be delighted with the new law, but the creators are rather different. According to the House of Press Publishers:
„Article 13, which speaks of the need to remove materials in the event of a non-contractual license agreement, concerns only a narrow group of portals. It is so-called online content providers, as the Directive states. one the main objectives of their activities are to provide access to materials provided by users using the optimization of content – that is, actively promoting them for commercial purposes. The adopted text also includes a negative definition that specifies that micro- and small entrepreneurs portals, as well as online encyclopedias (e.g. Wikipedia) or online repositories, will not be covered by this regulation."
Quoted Article 13. is considered controversial by some. It can be said that this provision is some form of compromise. The Directive may impose an economic burden on the owners of larger portals, but it does not apply to the smaller ones. There is also no reasonable reason to believe that the EU authorities intend to censor the Internet.
Those suppliers who will be required to search for specific content on their portals will do so for copyright rather than ideological purposes. New Directive referred to as ACTA 2 It won't take anyone's freedom of expression on the Internet.