Remember that EU copyright law from a few months back? Well, if you haven't heard, it was narrowly passed yesterday. But don't go holing up in a bunker with an assault rifle and printouts of your Read Later shelf just yet.
Remember that EU copyright law from a few months back? Well, if you haven't heard, it was narrowly passed yesterday. But don't go holing up in a bunker with an assault rifle and printouts of your Read Later shelf just yet.
Today the EU Copyright Directive which I discussed a couple weeks ago has, unfortunately, taken it's next step into becoming law.
The Good News; I was apparently somewhat mistaken on the timetable and today's vote wasn't the final vote, which means there's still time.
SIGN THE PETITION TO DEMAND A NEW DIRECTIVE
Haven't done much updates on this for a while since the EU Parliament election, so I guess about time. Journal link here gives finer details and links on our current status.
First off, if you didn’t catch my last discussion blog, it’s here. Comments have some corrections from me as it seems my initial assessment of the matchup was pretty spot on. I blame Death Battle.
The EU Copyright Directive is coming back around for another vote. Here's DeFranco's Breakdown:
Oh, and spoilers, for both the movie and the EU books.
As you know I wanted to posted a few stories this last two months, but things kept getting in the way. For my comedy 'Chronicles Of Nuttia: The Lion, The Mare and The Dragon.' I have decided to move this to April because is turning out to be pretty funny and would be perfect for April. Meanwhile, my Twister Gone Wrong will again be kept on hold.
Alright, it is May and thus it has begun.
Sign the new petition
SIGN THE NEW PETITION TO DEMAND THE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE IS OVERTURNED
(So, I'm going to talk about Article 13 and shit again. If you want to skip all the political talk and the jargon about what A13 threatens to do and how it might affect us - even outside the EU - hit Ctrl-F and search for "***" without quotations)
So, thanks to things happening rapidly all at once I went from needing to make one blog post to probably wanting to make three, so I had a brilliant idea-
Combine all the topics which will be of wildly different levels of interest to different people into one confusing mess!
Part 1: Intricate Disguise and There's Really No Way To Be Funny About This
On September 12, the EU is going to bring back Article 13 (As well as Article 11 and the rest of the EU Copyright Directive) into negotiations.
On March 21st, several websites will blackout in protest of the Directive, such as Wikipedia.
Looking at the distribution of the vote among different age groups was very interesting. I think I've come up with a good way to explain what happened.
The commission was accepted, and the artist tells me it should be done in around two weeks. I have asked Joan-Grace to be the artist. Go check their deviantArt account to see the art they have. I really like it and hope they will do incredible with what I am asking. I have asked for a scene involving Jack Nox and Moondancer, plus as a bonus, the scene will also include Moonchaser as well in some way. And it will depict a scene from the canceled Flash