{"id":112,"date":"2018-11-05T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=112"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:49:47","slug":"article-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/05\/article-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of hype and clickbait around the EU&#8217;s revised copyright directive &#8211; a well balanced summary on the subject can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/what-is-article-13-article-11-european-directive-on-copyright-explained-meme-ban\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a step back &#8211; the new copyright directive is not aimed against the freedom of speech or small creators; quite the opposite, it&#8217;s aim is to protect creators, big and small, from theft. All it does is shifting the burden from the creator to the publishing platforms, in case a piece of art gets misappropriated, and it specifically only targets big publishing platforms (in the latest amendment at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p>Of course do YouTube and Instagram\/Facebook dislike that &#8211; even though it&#8217;s not a new responsibility, just a new means of enforcement, it might negatively impact their bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Will Article 13 ban memes in YouTube videos? From my point of view, memes are covered by the &#8220;Fair Use&#8221; clause, but I&#8217;m not a legal expert.<\/p>\n<p>What it will finally ban though, is the use of copyrighted music in YouTube videos, monetized or not. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/255px-Flag_of_Europe.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"215\" title=\"255px-Flag_of_Europe.svg\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"255px-Flag_of_Europe.svg\" src=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/255px-Flag_of_Europe.svg_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of hype and clickbait around the EU&#8217;s revised copyright directive &#8211; a well balanced summary on the subject can be found here. Let&#8217;s take a step back &#8211; the new copyright directive is not aimed against the freedom of speech or small creators; quite the opposite, it&#8217;s aim is to protect creators, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/05\/article-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article 13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialmedia","category-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-1O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}