[paglia_s]

I have been searching for this but couldn't find any answer, let's say a company has a generic public platform where people can upload text, images, videos, audio, ... how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?

I know that Youtube has its own content id system, but for anyone without YT's resouces, is ther any 3rd party service to which you can pass content and get back a yes/no answer to "anyone copyrighted this thing?", if yes, what are the costs? the effectiveness?

[Filligree]

> how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?

They aren't. You can't. I'm not sure if this is an oversight, or deliberate -- the law was written by lots of people, so the truth is probably in-between -- but your best bet is to avoid the EU, or stick to major hosting providers like YouTube.

[salzig]

i deeply hope, as a EU citizen, that reddit, youtube, and all other platforms kill access by EU citizens the day this law takes effect.

Shouldn't take longer than a Week to get this rolled back.

[matteuan]

This is still not final, but startups and small business should be exempted from the law. But I guess there are still many platforms in the middle: big enough to not fall in the exempted category, but too small to build their own content id system. Paradoxically, Google/Facebook could profit A LOT from this.

[raverbashing]

> This is still not final, but startups and small business should be exempted from the law

For 3 years

[rotorblade]

I heard that voiced as a worry, and the logic goes something like this: A small organisation that does not have the capability (money or otherwise) to implement their own content filter, have to look elsewhere for it. Where to go? Probably Google, etc, once they start selling those services. So the net effect will not be negative for the big companies (if those now are the actual target for the copyright directive), since they will now instead have a new market to exploit; small organisations burdened by the content filter requirements demanded by the copyright directive.

[dingaling]

> how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?

"Did you create this item from your own efforts without the inclusion of material copyright to other entities? Y / N"

That's a filter. Not a particularly sophisticated one, but the majority of websites shouldn't be hosting anything that answers N to that anyhow. Little Northville Cycling Club, for example, probably shouldn't be hosting satire based on copyright works. It's just too legally risky.

[raverbashing]

> how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?

With an upload filter, which is obvious to technically inclined people (I'm not talking about you) and is denied by the supporters of this

BTW thank France for wanting ridiculous exceptions and Germany (#Merkelfilter) for caving up to them