In brief

EU Parliament voted in favour of controversial copyright directive (article 11 aka ‘Link tax’ and article 13 aka the ‘Meme ban’). They target digital content. First in line is illustrative content — but copyrighted audio (music and sound fx) should not be forgotten.

This law has impact on previously voted laws for digital content.

Consequences

Tech (giants) will be forced to do more in order to stop spreading copyrighted material on their platforms and be held responsible.

First in line are websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

Today the responsibility to avoid copyright violations lays within the party that produces the copyrighted material or represents them.

Shift from content originator (usually the companies that produce audio, video or written content) to content sharers.

Article 11

Article 11: link or share copyrighted articles will implicate a certain tax (payment)

If you share parts (not clear how much) of an article you’d be violating the copyright law and need to pay a fee (tax) to the author

This could, and most likely will, narrow the amount of information found on the internet and give large content providers more power to frame content and make the news.

Article 13

Article 13: (social) media will be held responsible to filter/remove content such as memes.

However, this isn’t law yet. It still has to go through a series of steps before it becomes finalised as an EU directive and then it still has to be implemented in law by by member states.

Audio content, streaming or as background sound in video is also subject to this proposed law. This implies that any usage of copyrighted audio material without a fair ‘payment’ is the responsibility of the site-owner. It’s not longer YouTube for instance that needs to filter it all out…

A huge opportunity for Muzika

Muzika is a music blockchain project, which has been built on an existing business and global music platforms with millions of users and fans across hundreds of nations, plus music artists from the globe, we aim at revolutionizing the digital music industry with the creation of a new digital music ecosystem. Muzika project is led by Forbes-awarded & Informatics Olympiad team members and endorsed by some of the most influential investors in South Korea and Asia. The token economy will be backed up by ever-growing population of community users and fans.

Muzika could be the one