EC's Copyright Law Revamp Proposal a 'Regression,' Mozilla Executive Says
The European Commission's draft copyright law revamp proposal “is more of a regression than the reform we need to support European businesses and Internet users,” said Mozilla Chief Legal and Business Officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer in a blog post. The draft,…
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released earlier Wednesday, would require service providers to monitor content uploaded by subscribers to ensure it's not copyright-protected. The EC proposed its expected pan-EU ancillary copyright aimed at allowing publishers to claim royalties from news aggregation services like Google News (see 1609140010). The regime “does little to address much-needed exceptions to copyright law,” Dixon-Thayer said: “It provides some exceptions for education and preservation of cultural heritage,” while a new exception for text and data mining “could ultimately restrict, rather than accelerate, TDM to unlock research and innovation across sectors throughout Europe.” There are “no exceptions for panorama, parody, or remixing,” Dixon-Thayer said. “We also regret that provisions which would add needed flexibility to the copyright system -- such as a UGC (user-generated content) exception and a flexible user clause like an open norm, fair dealing or fair use -- have not been included.”