by Jane Whyatt
The number thirteen is ’unlucky for some’ according to an old English superstition. And Article 13 of the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSMD) law currently under consideration will bring unlucky consequences, according to legal experts and media freedom campaigners.
Professor Dirk Voorhoof is one of the first signatories
Activists and libertarians from across Europe, USA and even including Bangladesh have published a letter of protest. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/10/article-13-monitoring-filtering-internet-content-unacceptable/ National governments of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany have tabled questions raising their concerns, too. And fifty-six of Europe’s leading law experts have…
