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FSFE Newsletter July 2018

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Save Code Share

On July 5, The European Parliament rejected the mandate to fast-track the controversial legislation intended to reform online copyright. 318 MEPs voted against the draft law amended by the Legal Affairs (JURI) committee, compared to 278 in favor. The legislation now opens up for a new round of amendments, before being sent for a second vote in September.

This rejection by a majority of MEPs can be seen as the success of creative and massive protest by citizens and civil rights organisations. The FSFE, together with Open Forum Europe, explained how the proposed EU Copyright review can substantially threaten Free Software development by forcing online code sharing repositories to use filters that monitor and preemptively take down any content that could potentially infringe copyright, including entire code repositories. Instead of that, we ask the European Union to Save Code Share.

More than 13.000 individuals have already signed our open letter asking to preserve the ability to share and build software online, and lots of Free Software supporters raised their voice. It was a success to see that, in the JURI report Free Software code sharing platforms were listed as an exempted service. While JURI proposed to spare Free Software code sharing platforms from the new filtering obligations, the changes committee tried to introduce for the remaining online environment remain dangerous for the rest of the Internet ecosystem.

In September, MEPs will once again vote in plenary to either 1) confirm the mandate as proposed by the committee, 2) amend it, or 3) reject it entirely. That includes the possibility that an exemption for Free Software code hosting platforms will not be in future versions of the draft law.

Hence, together with OFE, we at FSFE will continue to raise our voice and to explain the lawmakers about harmful implications of the current copyright reform for Free Software.

The FSFE's Community Meeting 2018

This year, we had the pleasure to align with hackstub, the organisation behind the Libre Software Meeting 2018 (also known as RMLL), to organise a policy track for FSFE and to run our annual community meeting at the same conference.

This turned out to be a very good chance for cooperation, and all participants benefited from a well-equipped and well-organised convention. We received a lot of positive feedback and look forward to catch up on the many good ideas and activities proposed in our sessions. Herewith a big thank you to hackstub and to everyone who participated!

Community members at the FSFE booth during LSM / RMLL 2018


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Current EU copyright reform is on summer break but will be re-opened in September. The initially proposed Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive targets every online service that allows its users to upload and share content with each other, including code hosting platforms. Help us to prevent such an implementation and to Save Code Share by signing our open letter and ask others to do so as well.

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Thanks to our community, all the volunteers, supporters and donors who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators, who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.

The FSFE wishes everyone nice summertime and will be back with the Newsletter in September.

Your editor,
Erik Albers


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