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by specializeded 2831 days ago
What is missing in this picture is that this Directive gives affordable enforcement muscle to all copyright owners*, including the smallest ones.
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It promises that muscle over the backs of people creating platforms, though. How is a small company going to ever create an upload filter that has little to none false positives and false negatives when even the FAANGs are not able to do this?
All content producers are copyright owners by definition, except insofar as they have contracted deals about the content in question prior to production.