All is fair in hate and war.
By The Daily Bell Staff
If there is one thing freedom lovers are good at, it is making memes. As the meme wars rage on, it becomes ever more apparent that collectivists are sorely outgunned.
The left can’t meme. So lovers of government do what they always do when they don’t get their way: try to get a law passed.
If article 13 of new EU copyright protections passes, it could mean the death of memes and even GIFs.
The rule would more strictly protect copyrighted material. So if a still shot of a movie scene was depicted in memes, that would be copyright infringement.
Even a copyrighted poster in the background of an uploaded video could violate the rule as it currently reads.
GIFs that depict movie scene would also be at risk, and so would parodies. Read the rest of this entry »
MCViewPoint 