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UPDATE:

European Parliament approved new copyright rules for the internet:

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190321IPR32110/european-parliament-approves-new-copyright-rules-for-the-internet

How this affects on ipernity is supposedly and hopefully here:

(37a) "... The definition of an online content sharing service under this Directive ... does not include services which have another main purpose than enabling users to upload and share a large amount of copyright protected content with the purpose of obtaining profit from this activity ..."

The approved proposal available for example here:
juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.pdf

My personal wish is that you all try to keep our web site clean out of copyright infringements anyway. To help you understand all possible dangers of infringing the copyright by accident, please start for example from here:

www.ipernity.com/blog/serola/4714022

ADDITION

I guess people may easily misunderstand the new EU Copyright Directive's Article 11 (so called "link tax"). As far as I have found out, it only concerns the news media articles less than two year old. Using other citations and links to them is not covered there on Article 11. So, you are free to cite for example Wikipedia articles, which are anyway published under Creative Commons. The same is with for example short citations of song. You can still do that. But not the whole texts.

Moreover, my person guideline is that whenever I cite some text or give for example link to any content, I try to make sure the source is legal. And that is because I do not want to support someone else shamelessly infringing the copyright. So, links and citations on trusted sources is a good and recommended procedure.
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77 comments

Annemarie said:

love it..............
5 years ago ( translate )

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Annemarie:

Please read the caption, and you may not like that ;-)

Even for authors this would be a disaster, when most of the photo sharing web sites would have to close offering platforms to share one's works.
5 years ago

Wierd Folkersma said:

My son already talked about that many monthes ago, it doesn`t sound very good
5 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Wierd Folkersma:

I have totally missed it =(

This really can close also ipernity! We can't afford to implement any filters! And we can't afford to pay for any possible copyright infringement lawsuits raised against the ipernity members association either. We all would become responsible on something done by few ignorant users.

This is the same SOPA and PIPA in 2012: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
5 years ago

* ઇઉ * replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…:

Unfortunately, there are not so few ignorant users, as it seems, Sami, and too few use the possibility of already existing filters - at least related to photos and paintings as well as to street art that is not always public domain, etc. -, which can minimize error or unreliability by using several providers at least. Alone here at ipernity, images are favored either unsuspectingly or carelessly, which are either supposedly public domain pictures from the internet or demonstrably the property of others, what promotes copyright infringement...
5 years ago

Taormina said:

Perhaps one can even assume that the Internet, as we know it today...
will change completely. And not necessarily to our advantage.
5 years ago

Xata said:

This does not sound good at all... this "makes the bed" of the biggest photosharing and the death of little ones like ours...
Like supermarket chains killed small shops and asphixiate small producers.
5 years ago

Ruesterstaude said:

Hab --> das hier gelesen, ich glaube, du hast Recht mit deinen Bedenken, Sami!
5 years ago ( translate )

neira-Dan said:

l'UE va finir par détruire toutes nos libertés
5 years ago ( translate )

Tractacus said:

So much for citizens rights....
This article could do with being in a more prominent position.
5 years ago

Frank J Casella said:

Thank you for sharing this Sami. As an American I didn't know this was going on. I like your picture to illustrate this ... the vignette is perfect.
5 years ago

Annemarie said:

O_O
5 years ago ( translate )

* ઇઉ * said:

Thanks very much for this important contribution, Sami! I think if we don't surrender defenselessly, we all have a good chance of protecting our rights, including our citizens' and human rights.
5 years ago

Janet Brien said:

A perfect picture to make noise about this issue, Sami. I cannot bear to deal with this garbage, politics makes me totally crazy and infuriated...to think that our internet rights are being batted about by those above....ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! *sticks head in the sand again, singing "LAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHICANNOTHEARANYTHINGIDONTWANTTOKNOWWHATICANNOTCHANGE"*

BTW, I wanted to thank you so much for your comments on my pictures. You're wonderful. You make me happy and you make me smile, and I love to read your opinions and feelings because dude, I totally love and respect your eye, your style, your ideas, and that brilliant mind behind the lens. It's awesome to me that you like my photography because I sure do find you to be quite the inspiration! *big hugs*
5 years ago

Karen's Place said:

Wonderful image, Sami.

But what a nightmare if this goes into effect. :(
5 years ago