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- In light of the vote on the mandate on the copyright file taking
- place tomorrow morning on 5 June, the four European associations
- representing press publishers across Europe, EMMA (European Magazine Media
- Association), ENPA (European Newspaper Publishers’ Association), EPC
- (European Publishers Council) and NME (News Media Europe) would like to
- express their *concerns regarding **the insidious means used by platforms
- to prevent this reform* which would push them to obtain licenses with
- rightsholders for the use of the protected works they display.
- In particular, *Wikipedia* has been encouraging its users since yesterday
- to contact their MEPs to prevent to “disrupt the open internet” and
- even black outed access to its pages in some cases stating that “*it may be
- impossible to share a newspaper article on social networks or find it on a
- search engine. Wikipedia itself would risk to close*.” Furthermore, there
- is proof of the backhanded collaborative lobbying of the platforms, as
- Wikipedia UK shows a black banner on top of the its main page in which the
- reader is redirected *towards Mozilla’s anti-copyright campaign page*. The
- well-orchestrated campaign provides step by step instructions on how users
- can contact Members of the European Parliament to express their opposition
- with regards the copyright reform.
- *The fact is**:* the report that will soon be voted upon establishes a
- right to press publishers (article 11.1a) which* specifically excludes uses
- by individuals and hyperlinks *from the scope of the right. As for
- Wikipedia’s “risk to close”, the report (Art. 2.4.a)* specifically states
- that online encyclopedia are not covered by the directive.*
- This is therefore another *purely bad-faith attempt to discredit a proposed
- directive** aiming at re-balancing a digital ecosystem dominated by
- platforms.*
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