Post subject: EU wants to require GitHub to filter uploaded content
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$ git push 
...
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local objects.
remote: error: GH013: Your push could infringe someone's copyright.
remote: If you believe this is a false positive (e.g., it's yours, open
remote: source, not copyrightable, subject to exceptions) contact us:
remote: https://github.com/contact
remote: We're sorry for interrupting your work, but automated copyright
remote: filters are mandated by the EU's Article 13.
To github.com/vollmera/atom.git
 ! [remote rejected] patch-1 -> patch-1 (push declined due to article 13 filters)
The EU is considering a copyright proposal that would require code-sharing platforms to monitor all content that users upload for potential copyright infringement (see the EU Commission’s proposed Article 13 of the Copyright Directive). The proposal is aimed at music and videos on streaming platforms, based on a theory of a “value gap” between the profits those platforms make from uploaded works and what copyright holders of some uploaded works receive. However, the way it’s written captures many other types of content, including code. We’d like to make sure developers in the EU who understand that automated filtering of code would make software less reliable and more expensive—and can explain this to EU policymakers—participate in the conversation. Full GitHub article here: https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filters-code/
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It makes sense that even code is copyrighted and should not be uploaded to something like GitHub without permission or proper licensing listed. However monitoring all content that is uploaded either via human or AI isn't feasible. The repository in question would need its own archive of all copyrighted material in existence in order to properly determine if something uploaded is copyrighted or not.
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Especially knowing how absurdly flawed automatic copyright infringement detection algorithms are.
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An algorithm for what? How does an algorithm know if something is copyrighted without having something to compare with?
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