😔 Memes banned by an EU copyright directive!? What!? 😕
“The days of communicating through gifs and memes, listening to our favourite remixes online or sharing videos of our friends singing at karaoke might be coming to an end.”
Legalcheek
Memes could be soon be a thing in the past for everyone. EU is planning a copyright directive that might be approved later this month. This Directive will protect intellectual property rights of people that publish content online. Digital campaigners warn that this could "destroy the internet as we know it". This might be the death of memes because those memes as we know them are created from other people's original content, this includes photographs, music and videos.
European Commission spokesman said:
Legalcheek
Sites will probably have to invest in filtering systems that will check the content posted and avoid publishing/showing the copyrighted content.
Here's an example I found on the internet, Kermit the Frog, when you share this meme, you have the Lipton drink from which you did not get an approve to use it, you have Kermit the Frog, and the person that took the photo. 3 copyright violations in one meme.
What do you think about this? Will the internet be destroyed? Will this allow big companies control our content even more? Will memes be safe on Steemit and can this help Steemit grow faster?
And don't forget! "One meme a day, keeps the doctor away!".
The government is always trying to ruin everything fun!
God bless you. @biblegateway
It expands dark webs and prohibition back fires historically. Globalists are trying to brain us more and more and to dominate us and drug us up like Kanye West said and kill us and more for many centuries or longer and I am writing a post about this and am linking to this post too.