CrowsNest wrote:An EU Directive supersedes any local law. This is one of the costs of being an EU member, you cannot make your own laws. The idea that you are still sovereign because you are making your own laws at the direction of the EU is an untenable farce. Hence Brexit.
The issue here is that Wikipedia was already exempt in the first draft, and they knew it. And yet they still went into campaign mode.
Yes, that is true, but this is not about our local copyright law! That is the huge misunderstanding! And, what many people don't know is the European parlement is far from free, it is dominated by the the rich and northern country's who get in this way most times what they want. Not always, but many times they do.
This decision was only the green light to continuo, and as Dysklyver wrote in his posting it is an instruction for each EU country to incorporate the concept into their own law. And that is the tricky part! Because the process is not finished. The direction is absolute clear, because the EP gave it's approval. But don't forget the Europa Parlement didn't take this decision itself. it was taken after a long negotiations between the different country's. The EP can't take just a decision without consulting the national parliaments. And now again there will be negotiations with the national parliaments, because if one country say no it is no. The national parliaments must prove this regulation, and in this proces there is for sure no space for a exception for Wikipedia.
And in this way the country are independent, not in the way European regulation overrules national regulation. European regulation is a is a very complex proces, and only a little people know this. And for sure Romaine and the complete Wikimedai lobby group didn't know this otherwise for sure they had listen to me and had not trolled out a bare foot legal copyright expert with a SanFanBan at the end!
I think I cross post this posting in WO.