[Bluebirt]

This collective of stooges of the European content industry seems to be somewhat irrelevant. Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters. This seems like one of the thousand attempts to protect the very mediocre European domestic content industry. As a German, I have seen so many of such initiatives, often even funded by universities or state near bodies.

[sofixa]

Mediocre by which metric?

In music, fine arts, video games, photography there are tons of extremely successful European content producers. Cinema/TV are also quite big too (in no small part thanks to EU legislation incentivising it, but it's top notch quality so who cares, win-win-win).

[iamsaitam]

Mediocre European domestic content industry? You must be thinking of a very specific niche, when it comes to fine arts and music Europe has been a leader since ever.

[Rinzler89]

Unfortunately those big and famous European artists are all dead for decades/centuries. Kinda difficult to monetize today.

Not that we should enable that. Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Bach are cool, but who should be making money now from their IP? I'd say nobody, it should already be part of CC IMHO.

[peoplefromibiza]

> Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters

no surprise here, you don't seem the type to appreciate art, in any form.

I guess you don't even watch Netflix...

> very mediocre European domestic content industry

Or maybe this is an attempt by artists to protect their works from being exploited by big corporations in exchange for nothing. Which is fine to me, even if their work really were mediocre, nobody can deprive authors of their rights.

[raverbashing]

Thanks for actually reading the article, and yes, my opinion is kinda similar here

It will be the same story as with Spotify, they will be happy to license it for a bit company for pennies which then again will license it upstream for a big amount

[Rant423]

> Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters.

That's entirely on you. There are some big names in the (european) comic book industry.