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Notice and what? Explaining the copyright 'Notice Trio'
By
Ruth Coustick-Deal
| January 11, 2017

There's a set of confusing phrases you may have heard floating around the Internet on digital rights or intellectual property blogs -- or maybe it was that one time you tried to actually read the terms and conditions?

Today we're going to dig into what we're calling "The Notice Trio." These ones:

  • Notice and Notice

  • Notice and Takedown

  • Notice and Staydown

2017 is shaping up to be a big year for copyright around the world. If you've been following our work in the European Union, you know that this year is when rubber meets the road for revising the Copyright Directive. (If you haven't yet, join us at SaveTheLink.org!)

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Email your MEP: It's time to talk 'Save the Link'
By
Ruth Coustick-Deal
| November 16, 2016

For the last two years we have been working together to ensure that the new copyright proposals in the EU doesn't crush our free expression online. But when the proposal finally came out last month, it confirmed our worst fears: The link tax is still alive.

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Will the European Commission's copyright rules spell destruction for Wikimedia?
By
Meghan Sali
| October 1, 2016

The European Commission's Copyright Directive -- full of bad ideas, or full of the worst ideas ever?

That's the question that many of us campaigning for positive copyright reform are asking ourselves in the wake of the Commission's recently announced copyright package.

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