You want info on Article 13? Thank MatPat for an easy to understand and very clear explanation of it from his latest Film Theory episode. It’s not just YouTube and your favorite YouTubers in danger. MatPat even talked to one of the heads of YouTube and they basically said that this will change everything and hurt everyone. They even put it in easy to understand English.
It’s everyone on every. Social. Media. Platform. EVERYWHERE. And just because the wording of the document is extremely vague, the big companies will take advantage.
Everyone, spread the word.
Europeans, talk to your MEPs and explain calmly and clearly why this would hurt hundreds, if not thousands, if not MILLIONS of creators.
We have less than a month before things get worse. They’ve already tightened up privacy policies once this year because of the initial draft vote. If this passes, we’re all in trouble.
Get talking. Don’t let this slip by and cause ALL of us to suffer the consequences. We’re all creators. As creators, we also use things at some point or another that don’t belong to us. We’ve all used memes, whether or not we’ve known it.