Article 13 : What does it mean for photos ? – Kaptur

Article 13 : What does it mean for photos ? – Kaptur

What does the new article 13 of the EU mean for visual content? Will it break the internet or make it a fairer place?

via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/article-13-what-does-it-mean-for-photos/

Just this past week, the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs approved amendments to EU’s Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Among which is included the infamous Article 13 which ” creates an obligation on information society service providers storing and giving access to large amounts of works and other subject-matter uploaded by their users to take appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure the functioning of agreements concluded with rightsholders and to prevent the availability on their services of content identified by rightsholders in cooperation with the service providers”.