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A year without Marvel movies left a pop culture void

In early April, I watched a clip of people crying, hollering, and clapping during a scene in Avengers: Endgame. It was the first time I remember missing physically sitting in a movie theater. I thought by May, when Black Widow was scheduled to be released, life would return to normal. I’d be back in a theater on Thursday night with friends, sitting among a packed room full of strangers chatting excitedly about the beginning of a new Marvel Cinematic Universe phase.

That never happened.

Instead, 2020 has become the first year since 2009 without a major addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There’s no big introduction of a new superhero, no highly anticipated sequel — there’s not even an entry in Marvel Studios’ MCU TV universe. WandaVision, once slated to premiere this month, won’t hit until January 15th. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was supposed to kick things off in August of this year, and now it doesn’t have a premiere date at all. There’s no big Marvel anything.

In a year where I feel more disconnected from people than ever, where I’m searching for community from the confines of a tiny studio apartment, not having that quintessential part of normalcy — sitting in a theater and watching the couple of Marvel movies that come out every year — feels enormous.

The absence of Marvel movies is the absence of a very specific kind of excitement. Living within the confines of our new normal for the last 10 months means trying to find little things to look forward to every week. A new show on a streaming service helps or a Zoom catch-up with family who can’t visit. But it doesn’t replace the physicality of community or the excitement of leaving home to experience something people may have been waiting on for several months. In 2020, a year filled with death and travesty at the worst of times and mindless boredom at the best of times, the absence of unbridled anticipation was tough to swallow.

Marvel’s disappearance didn’t just echo through subreddit forums and on stan Twitter. It severely impacted business for a number of companies in the entertainment industry. Disney went from having its strongest third quarter ever in 2019 with the release of Avengers: Endgame, which brought in more than $2.8 billion, to one of its worst without any notable releases. Since Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009, the IP has brought in nearly $30 billion. That doesn’t include merchandise.

There are also theaters. In a moment where Hollywood is struggling to get people to tear their eyes away from Netflix, TikTok, and Minecraft, theaters are reliant on major tentpole event movies — like a new entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — to bring people in. In 2008, Marvel Cinematic Universe movies made up about 6 percent of the US box office; by 2019, it was more than 15 percent, with Disney controlling close to 40 percent of the total US box office market share.

A new Marvel movie would come out, it would dominate pop culture discussion around the world for a few weeks or months — giving us a fresh round of memes and plenty of Twitter discourse — and then start up again by the time the next one rolled around. This happens with other movies, of course, but with Marvel, everything felt like it was on a grand scale. A subreddit deleting half of its members over the course of a couple of days all because of a joke in Infinity War was something we could participate in together, even if it was online. That moment was spurred by an event that millions of people experienced in movie theaters together.

The pandemic has become a lesson in adapting to a new normal. The beauty (or nightmare, depending on who you ask) of Marvel movies is that there’s always one or two just around the corner. That absence of excitement is beginning to fade; in part because The Mandalorian has helped to make the last few weeks fun again. I’m getting excited about WandaVision, which will premiere on Disney Plus in just over a month. I’m excited about having that week-to-week discussion and feeling of community online again when episodes drop. I’m excited for Black Widow, and hopeful that we may be at a place where we can pile into a movie theater and fall back into a world with a character that’s been on-screen since 2010.

A year without Marvel movies is significant to me, but Marvel can be replaced with any number of things. Concerts, basketball games, church outings, or nights at the local bar — it’s the quiet bonding that we experience that emphasizes our communities. It’s the feeling of intimacy inside a sea of strange faces. It’s that inexplicable sense of true unity in the face of this thing that we love so much. As much as I can’t wait for the next MCU release, I’m more excited to get that feeling back.

TikTok to hide graphic videos behind warning screens

TikTok has unveiled a newly updated set of community guidelines and tools, which include new warning screens on graphic videos, a new text-to-voice accessibility feature, and updated health resources. The update brings new vaccine information which will be added to TikTok’s coronavirus resource hub as well as resources to be shown if people search for certain terms, like those related to self-harm.

According to TikTok, the graphic content warning screens are meant to prevent the accidental viewing of content that some might find disturbing. The screen gives two options, letting users either view the clip or skip it entirely. More extreme content is removed from the service entirely, but the new warning labels cover clips that might be allowed for “documentary reasons,” scenes from horror movies, or violent scenes of animals hunting. This content is already not distributed via the service’s For You feed, TikTok says.

Searching for certain terms will now link users to helpful resources.

Image: TikTok

Also announced today is a new text-to-voice accessibility feature which will read out text as it appears in a video. Its release follows the epilepsy warnings that the service recently started adding to photosensitive videos. Meanwhile, users who search for terms like “selfharm” or “hatemyself” will be shown help resources, and links to organizations like the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Crisis Textline.

Vaccine information is also being added to TikTok’s coronavirus resource hub, which is accessible from the service’s Discover page, search results, and banners on videos related to the disease or vaccines generally. The hub will be updated to include commonly asked questions and answers about COVID-19 vaccines from public health experts like the Centers for Disease Control. TikTok says the resource hub has been viewed over 2 billion times in the last six months.

Handling of user data: US consumer authority requests information from Facebook & Co

As part of a far-reaching investigation, the US antitrust and consumer protection agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asked a total of nine well-known social networks and video streaming companies to provide information on their business practices in connection with the use of user data put. The companies the FTC wrote to on Monday include Amazon, Facebook and its subsidiary WhatsApp, Reddit, Snap as the parent company of Snapchat, Twitter, Google parent Alphabet, YouTube, Discord and Bytedance as the TikTok owner.

As stated in the FTC notice, companies should provide information on how they collect and use personal data of their users . In detail, the FTC is interested in user tracking and the extent to which personal data and demographic information are used for advertising purposes. The companies should explain on what basis which advertisements are displayed to consumers and whether they apply algorithms or data analyzes to personal data. In addition, the FTC is calling for clarification on how they measure user engagement and what measures they use to promote it. The aim is for companies to show how these practices affect children and young people.

“Social media and video streaming companies track users everywhere via apps on their mobile devices that are always available these companies monitor where users go, what people they interact with, and what they do. But for what purpose? ” FTC commissioners Rohit Copra, Rebecca Slaughter and Christine Wilson believe that too much remains “dangerously opaque” about the industry, a joint statement said. Together with FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, the three commissioners had decided to request the information. The panel’s fifth commissioner, Noah Phillips, voted against. Although he also sees the overriding goal of shedding light on the business practices of big tech companies, the information requested is too detailed.

No prosecution measure The investigation now initiated by the FTC is not related to any law enforcement measure. The information provided by the companies could, however, be used to initiate possible action against the social networks and video streaming companies.

The FTC as an independent authority has the right to obtain information from US companies in order to to prevent unfair and unfair business practices if necessary and to ensure a functioning market.

Of the four big tech companies Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, the FTC had 2020 Obtained extensive information on the business conduct of the companies in order to also investigate possible effects under antitrust law. The FTC filed a competition lawsuit against Facebook in December because Facebook is said to have bought Instagram and WhatsApp in order to secure its own dominance in the market.

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Facebook launches its Collab music app to the public

Facebook has publicly launched Collab, an experimental music-making app that first launched as an invite-only beta back in May, TechCrunch reports.

The app allows users to create short-form music videos by combining up to three independent videos. So, for example, three musicians could each play a different part of a song and combine them into one video. But each video that’s created is also posted to a public “Collab” feed, where people can view and play along with it if they choose.

So you could also record one part, then mix it with two other parts you find on the Collab feed that other people have recorded. Or you can just mix other people’s videos together — you don’t need to be a musician yourself. (Every user is properly credited for their contributions, according to Facebook.)

You won’t have to worry about lining all the videos up — Collab includes in-app tools to sync the parts together. Per its App Store page, “We make sure that as you swipe, the videos play at exactly the right moment to be in sync.”

The app isn’t directly integrated with Facebook (yet, at least), but you can export the finished products to your Instagram story (as well as other platforms, including TikTok) via iOS share sheet.

Collab is free on the App Store, and you can download it today.

The FTC is investigating data collection at YouTube, Facebook, and seven other companies

The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it is launching a new inquiry into the privacy practices of some of the largest tech companies and social media platforms in the world.

In a press release published Monday, the FTC announced that it is ordering nine social media and video streaming companies — including Amazon, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube — to provide data on how they collect and use personal information provided by their users. The companies have 45 days to respond.

Each of the nine companies was contacted for comment but did not immediately respond to requests from The Verge.

The FTC’s orders were authorized as part of a wide-ranging investigative inquiry and do not serve specific law enforcement purposes. However, the FTC could pursue enforcement actions should it find wrongful behavior throughout the study. In the agency’s Monday orders, the FTC requested that the companies provide information related to how they collect personal data, how that data determines which ads and content users are shown, and whether they “apply algorithms or data analytics to personal information.”

The commission voted 4-1 to approve the orders with Commissioner Noah Phillips dissenting, saying that the probe was too wide-ranging to produce useful results.

“These digital products may have launched with the simple goal of connecting people or fostering creativity. But, in the decades since, the industry model has shifted from supporting users’ activities to monetizing them,” three FTC commissioners who voted to approve the orders said in a joint statement Monday. “This transition has been fueled by the industry’s increasing intrusion into our private lives.”

In February, the FTC used this same investigative authority to request information on past acquisitions made by big tech companies, including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft. Last week, the FTC sued Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

TikTok can be installed on Samsung televisions and will arrive pre-installed on new models

by Jordi Bercial 1 hour ago …

As we can read in Business Insider, TikTok has teamed up with Samsung to launch an application that can be installed on the company’s televisions , and that will later arrive pre-installed on televisions so that it will not even have to go through the installation process.

Users who decide to use TikTok on their TVs will see the videos in the same vertical format as on smartphones and they will do so by occupying the entire vertical space , while the remaining space on the sides will show additional information such as the TikTok description, number of comments and “likes ”, And the user who has uploaded it to the platform.

In the same way, as we read in the middle, TikTok would be p Thinking of extending the time limit of his videos from one minute to three, something that, together with its arrival on televisions, would make clear TikTok’s attempts to enter the space of videos in longer formats, being more comfortable to view on a television.

TikTok can be installed on Samsung televisions of 2018 onwards , and as we have already mentioned, it will arrive pre-installed on televisions manufactured from now on , so it will be easier to navigate this social network. It is unknown if TVs from other brands will receive support for TikTok in the future.

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Jordi Bercial

Avid enthusiast of technology and electronics . I mess around with computer components almost since I learned to ride. I started working at Geeknetic after winning a contest on their forum for writing hardware articles. Drift, mechanics and photography lover. Don’t be shy and leave a comment on my articles if you have any questions.

TikTok TV app now available on Samsung smart TVs in the UK

TikTok is launching an app on Samsung smart TVs in Europe, allowing users to scroll through their For You feeds and see other TikTok videos, the companies announced Monday. The TikTok TV app is available in Samsung’s app store and is compatible with 2018 and newer models. It will come preinstalled on all new Samsung TVs. The app will roll out to users in the UK first.

Image: TikTok / Samsung

The app displays videos from a user’s feed in a strip across the top, with videos in different categories to check out. According to the news release from Samsung, users can like, view, and comment on trending videos and block or mark content they’re not interested in.

TikTok videos will continue to be displayed with a vertical aspect on TVs, the company confirmed.

Image: TikTok / Samsung

The Samsung app is different than the More on TikTok app the company launched on Amazon Fire TVs in August. The Fire TV app includes interviews with creators and a “This is TikTok” category to spotlight creators on the platform.

The Fire app is essentially a container app of curated content, TikTok says, while the Samsung app is closer to what users see in the mobile app. Neither requires a TikTok account to view content, but users who log in to the Samsung TikTok app will receive more personalized content.

According to mobile analytics firm App Annie, when combining info from iOS and Android, TikTok was the most-downloaded app of 2020.

Snapchat is releasing Bitmoji Paint, a massively multiplayer online painting game

Today, Snapchat is getting a new original game called Bitmoji Paint. As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji — those cutely grotesque customizable avatars — and painting. It’s Snap Inc.’s second title from its internal games studio, which began putting out games last year. “Our goal with Bitmoji has always been to be the world’s avatar, to give people a digital version of themselves that represents them and lets them be themselves online,” says Ba Blackstock, co-founder of Bitmoji. “And so now with games, it’s also letting people play together in a really new and fun and exciting way.”

Bitmoji Paint places players on a gigantic, pixelated grid, and lets them paint those squares as a shared canvas. Zoom out, and you get pixel art. You get there by pressing the rocket icon or through search; the first thing you’ll see are floating islands in space, which are different servers you can join with hundreds of other players. There are three modes — move, paint, and map — and users can also interact with other players around the world using stock emotes. There’s also a voice chat function in Snap’s game menu so you can talk to your friends while you’re scribbling. Creations persist, so you can keep working on the things you’ve started.

“A lot of the playability in the game is things like simple scribbles,” says John Imah, head of games and entertainment partnerships at Snap. “You can send fun messages, and also even [make] giant landscapes, all these things are all possible in Bitmoji Paint.” He’s been playing the game for a while now and says he’s excited for the world to see it, and then to see how people have fun with it. (As far as moderation goes, players can’t see each other’s Snap IDs unless they’re already friends, and the company emphasized that it’ll provide easy access to reporting tools.)

Snap has used games and unique filters to pull people into its app and stand apart from competitors like TikTok and Instagram. Its recent anime lens went viral outside the app and was used 3 billion times in its first week. That said, to hear Imah tell it, the games program has already been a big success. “To date, we’ve had more than 100 million Snapchatters play our games, which we’re incredibly proud of,” he says. “An average of 20 minutes are played per player every day, when they’re playing Bitmoji Party,” Imah says. Sounds like Bitmoji Paint has some large shoes to fill.

India already blocks over 200 Chinese apps

India’s IT ministry bans 43 apps. It applies regardless of the operating system. This means that the number of apps blocked in the world’s second largest country has risen to 219. As a rule, Chinese operators are behind the offers concerned. The measure was taken because “these apps are involved in activities that are detrimental to the sovereignty and integrity of India, the defense of India, the security of the state and public order.”

The Ministry announced this on Tuesday. At the end of June, India blocked TikTok, WeChat and 57 other apps that send data to China, including several apps from Baidu, QQ and Tencent. At the beginning of September, more 117 were added, including Alipay, a double listed VPN that was specifically committed to circumventing the TikTok ban, and other apps from Baidu, Tencent and WeChat.

This time four apps from the Alibaba group are affected, an application aimed at lesbians, apps for customers such as chauffeurs from the Lalamove delivery service, and various video and entertainment apps, for example. The Indian government fears that “elements that are hostile to the national security and defense of India” will access the data accumulated by the app operators and use it to create profiles about Indians. With the “elements” are meant secret services of the People’s Republic of China, although the official publications of India never state that.

Conflict between billion states India and China are arguing over control of a border area. In June there were skirmishes that claimed dozens of lives. Since April, both sides have deployed tens of thousands of soldiers in the border region.

In addition, China is trying to drag the Kingdom of Bhutan into the conflict. Bhutan has just 800. 000 inhabitants, while India and China each have around 1.4 billion Population.

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How to easily create free QR codes

by Antonio Delgado Ago 11 hours …

Create QR codes

QR codes offer many possibilities when it comes to communicate with people , you can have a QR code to direct whoever scans it to a website with information, connect to a Wi-Fi or send an email . We simply have to scan the code with our phone and it will direct us directly to this site, instead of having to enter cumbersome and long web addresses, passwords or write email addresses that on many occasions can lead to errors if written by hand .

These QR codes can be used by everyone, even you can create your QR codes . In this guide we are going to show you how, it is very simple and it is not necessary to install any application, although there are also apps to create them , so you will have your own QR codes to share and that can lead to that link that you want in an easier way.

First we will see some online services from where to create our QR codes on any device that has a browser, then we will see how create these QR codes by installing an application on our phone , both ways allow us to customize our QR codes by adding color, embedding our logo or modifying the appearance of the points that form it.

How to create QR codes online for free

There are several web pages that allows us to create codes very quickly QR, just fill in We give the data and will give us the code that we can share or download it to attach it wherever we want, let’s see the best pages to create these codes.

codes-qr.com

On this website we can create QR codes for Internet addresses, SMS, Telephone, E-mail, Text, Business card, Geolocation, Calendar event or Wifi . This website is very simple, we tell you how to create QR codes.

We access the web www.codigos-qr.com .
Let’s go to the section of QR code generator .
We select the service we want to use above , we briefly tell you each one
Size and redundancy are common values for all options, the size indicates how big the QR code will be and redundancy the ease of reading the code when it is deteriorated.
URL , enter the URL, including http: // , wherever we want the QR code to take us.
SMS , we enter the phone number in the field and write in Message: the text to send.
PHONE , Simply enter the phone number that we want to call when they scan the code.
EMAIL , we introduce the email address in the email field , below the subject and fill in message the text of the email.
TEXT , in the field text we write the message that we want to appear when scanning the QR code.
VCARD , here we will fill in the details of the business card , Name and Surname, Address, Position, Telephone Number, Company, email and Web, when scanning the code it will allow us to save everything in the agenda , it is not necessary to fill them all .
GEOLOC , we will have to enter the latitude and longitude coordinates to locate us on the map of our phone.
EVENT , here we will put a event start date, event end date and a description of it.
WIFI , we will have to fill in the name of the wifi network, the password and the type of security it has.
Once we have entered the data in the section we want, click on generate QR code .
Now we will only have to click with the right mouse button or leave pressed if we are on the mobile to save it, print it and place it where we want , we can also get the code in HTML to insert it into a web.

Qrcode-monkey.com

On this website we have some more options to create QR codes than the previous one, such as codes to enter Facebook, Twitter or for bitcoin transactions.

We enter the web www .qrcode-monkey.com and directly we will see the different sections available above.
We select the section for which we want to create the QR code, works in a similar way to the previous web.
This page allows us customize the QR code , we can choose colors , add an image as logo and customize the design with different shapes for the body, for the frame and the shape of the eye.
1. Once the data has been entered, we select the option Choose Colors .
2. We can choose between a single color , or a blurring between two colors , in the latter we will have to select the start and end colors of the blur and the type that can be Radial or Linear.
3. We can customize the color of the QR code Eye , we check the box and choose the color.
4. We can also put a background color , which by default it is white.
5. Now we go to the option Add Logo Image. Here we select one of the images that they already have predefined, related to the topics for which we want to create the QR code or we can add our own image, for that we click on Image , and it will allow us to add one.
6. Finally, we can customize the design by choosing the body shape, eye frame shape and eye shape .
Now we only have to adjust the resolution and click on Create QR Code or Download PNG, We can also save it in SVG, PDF and EPS without customizing the design.
Do not worry if your design is not as you expected, go back to the step you want to modify, change what you need and click again on Create QR Code to see the new result.

Free applications to create QR codes

Simply with a search in the Play Store create QR code We see many applications, most of them free. We have chosen the best ones to tell you how these applications work and how to generate a QR code in a different way.

QR code generator

This application allows us to create codes QR to share text, URL, Email, Telephone, SMS, Contact, Geolocation or Wifi .

Its operation is very simple, but allows us to change the background of the QR code for a drawing , let’s see how it works.

Top right, on the gearwheel, we will enter the application options, where we can change the color of the QR code, the quality, the type of format and the level of correction .

In the center we will see a field TEXT that if we press we can choose the type of QR code we want to create , we select for example URL.

We fill in the data according to the type of QR code we want to create , in our case we put the web www.geeknetic.es, here we already have the https: // written.

Click at the top left on the square of the QR code , we see the option to unlock more designs by viewing a simple ad , So we can add a background to the generated code selecting it from the list.

Once the background is selected we will only have to click on Generate to create our code.

Now we will see the QR code with the selected background, top right we will have three lines that if we click we can see all the codes generated , the following icon of a disk saves the design on the device, and the button of share allows us send it to other people through the usual means such as WhatsApp or Telegram among others.

QR code generator- Make QR code

With this application we can create QR codes to share much more data than in the previous one , in addition to the previous ones we have for PayPal, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok and many more social networks and messaging apps . Its operation is also very simple.

We select the type of content to create in the QR code at the bottom of the application, we will select Website.
We fill in the data of the website, we have the buttons to fill in text automatically, also works with the clipboard , click on create up to the right.
Now we will have the basic QR code and we can customize it , we can use a template, customize color, dots, code eye, add text, etc. Some options are paid and a subscription is required.

Once the configuration of the QR code is finished we can share it, save it as a template or add it to an image to create a composition.

Conclusion
In this way we can have QR codes saved to share information with other friends, either our virtual business card , our profile of a social network or simply our contact or personal website . We can also use them to share some text that we can read simply by scanning the QR code, which in most cases will suffice with our mobile camera application.

A quick way to share data that would otherwise be a hassle to copy by hand most of the time, just captures, scans and saves .

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Antonio Delgado

Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.

A group of 576 artists appeals to politicians not to “play off copyright against us”. Music up to 20 seconds, remixes, samples – “everything should be freely usable, without a license”, the alliance railed against the draft of the Federal Ministry of Justice on copyright reform. Above all, the proposed new exceptions to the exclusive exploitation rights are “so outrageously contrary to European law” that “we can only shake our heads”.

The signatories of the heise online letter to members of the government and members of the Bundestag include the bands and ensembles AnnenMayKantereit, Antilopen Gang, Beatsteaks, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Doctors, Die Toten Hosen, Feine Sahne Fischfilet and Kraftwerk. There are also musicians, singers and DJs such as Blixa Bargeld, Herbert Grönemeyer, Joy Denalane, Leslie Mandoki, Paul van Dyk and Tim Bendzko.

“No adequate remuneration” “The Corona crisis hit us hard,” write the artists. It is all the more painful that “we are still not receiving adequate remuneration for our works in the only non-restricted market” of online platforms. The EU Parliament had the courage to shift “the unequal power imbalance” a little towards a new balance with the controversial copyright directive and the resulting tightened liability regime.

They had another concern The alliance emphasizes that EU politicians have been picked up and “the power of disposal over our artistic work has been put back into our hands: we should no longer have to fish out every bit of video in the flood of platforms ourselves, in which, for example, new rights or conspiracy theorists Make use of the awareness of our works without being asked. ”

The musicians are therefore” horrified “at how little of this intention has remained in the ministry’s project: the guideline is being watered down, the position of creative people weakened in negotiations. “Instead of a harmonized European market for licenses, we are getting a German self-service shop where our works are given away to everyone who says ‘pastiche’.”

Bagatellschranke Above all, the proposed “minor barrier”, with which snippets of content such as memes in social media are to be made license-free and subject to payment, must be dropped, the authors demand. User rights in the area of ”User Generated Content” should not be extended across the board through the back door. The tried and tested notice-and-takedown procedure for removing content should be retained.

That the legislative proposal (LB 2985648: very is controversial) $ shows, in addition to the objections from other ministries that have already become public, the high number of over 100 statements to the justice department. The spectrum of interest representatives ranges from rights holders to associations of the IT industry and initiatives such as SaveTheInternet, which have long been campaigning against upload filters, to the churches. For example, the German bishops are campaigning for the ability to continue streaming church services beyond the corona pandemic with a flat fee via the collecting society Gema.

Against upload filters Raise your voice for the first time 30 Social media greats like PietSmiet, Gronkh, Le Floyd, Rewi, Rezo and Tilo Jung, who say they have around 88 million users on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch and Reach TikTok. They complain that the initiative “draws a line between the owners of copyrights and users of upload platforms” that “does not correspond to actual practice”. As a “content creator” they are both and have “as creatives and as a company in the cultural industry” against the article at the time 13 (now 17) protested the directive.

“We reject automated systems, Check the uploads for copyright infringement, in principle, “emphasize the makers. They could not understand the content of uploaded works and are therefore not suitable for correctly detecting copyright violations. This would actually suppress legal content. The creators expressly rate the “provided exceptions for the public reproduction of a tiny excerpt” of copyrighted works for non-commercial purposes as positive.

User rights and copyrights The Federal Association of Consumer Organizations (vzbv) praises the fact that the Ministry of Justice has given the freedom to design articles 17 actively intended to use. It is clear, however, that upload filters would not be prevented by the present proposal. In this respect, the government is breaking the promise made in the coalition agreement. That is why it is crucial “that user rights are protected as best as possible”. This is not a necessary evil, but a prerequisite for being able to implement the EU requirements in accordance with fundamental rights at all.

Wikimedia Germany also calls on the government to do so to pay more attention to the needs of the users and to maintain the balance of legal permissions. Even if Wikipedia is excluded from the article : If filter algorithms are used widely, the entire process of creation suffers from free Knowledge of social media, forums and video portals is massive. The fact that automatic systems should check content in advance contradicts the tenor of the executive’s protocol declaration.

Shift of responsibility In contrast to the discussion draft, the revised paper no longer contains any “innovative solutions”, regrets Google. The justice department is now making service providers “responsible for problems within the ecosystem that are beyond their control”. The obligation to acquire licenses for typically uploaded content is impractical and incompatible with European law.

The group considers the extended ancillary copyright for press publishers to be unnecessary. It was only in October 2020 that he announced that he would be giving journalists and press publishers increased support through the “News Showcase” and paying license fees for selected high-quality articles. Snippets with up to 200 characters or 30 Words should definitely remain license-free. According to VG Media, which represents many publishers, the draft, despite corrections, “secures the business models of the providers of services that use press products intensively and extensively”.

Technical concerns about the “Pre -Flagging System “has Facebook. Comparing billions of uploads with millions of files from rights holders in real time using complex technology “is not possible in many cases”. German users could face longer and frustrating waiting times when trying to post content. This is likely to harm their right to freedom of expression.

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