User:Mrs. Jan Cola/EU copyright reform
The European Union is preparing to reform copyright laws. On 14 September 2016, former Digital Commissioner
PIPA all over again. Wikipedia, Fight for the Future and Avaaz must team up with OpenMedia, EDRi and the EFF
in fighting these bad copyright proposals since this will not only affect the EU, but this will affect every internet user worldwide. The media has not even reported much about this.
The EU Parliament has already submitted amendments to the proposals and they are scheduled for a vote in the JURI Committee in June. Let's call on them to vote in favour of the amendments that would remove ancillary copyrights that failed in Germany and Spain and would remove the obligation to monitor and filter out content since YouTube's Content ID system has blocked and removed fair use videos. This project was created to raise awareness.
How Wikipedia will be affected
This law is targeted toward the European Union, but this will affect all Wikipedians worldwide. I think another one-day blackout is necessary.