Talk:EU policy/Issues overview

Welcome to discuss this policy overview.

Questions that you may want to address

Are there additional EU processes that you would find relevant to include in the overview? Are there issues that, the importance of which you think has been overestimated or underestimated?

Safe Harbour status under E-Commerce directive

A number of EP party-group platforms on DSM are calling for a "review" of the safe-harbour provisions under the E-Commerce directive. A key rightsholder push is currently to try to get a proactive "duty of care" imposed on internet platforms, rather than notice-and-notice or notice-and-takedown provisions.

While Wikipedia tends to have communities that are very vigilant when it comes to proactively identifying copyright and plagiarism problems, this still needs a reality-check because even with our communities, we can't guarantee to always be identify and remove every copyvio -- and obviously the content we create is central to what we do. Jheald (talk) 08:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Ancillary copyright

What is "fair reporting" of news stories? WP articles on breaking events (and historical events too) often use news media sources as key references. But there is a push from news-media facing eroding print-copy sales to present web summaries as "parasitism". Google News may be the service most often in the target crosshairs, but any ill-considered legislation could have much a wider fallout. It may be important to defend the point that the ability report and discuss the news is essential for freedom of speech and an informed citizenship. Jheald (talk) 08:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)