A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about an extremely important case that was being considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court. The central question was wheth…

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Any work you create is probably under copyright automatically, if your country is party to the Berne convention.

    • DarkMetatron@feddit.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      In Germany only stuff that has a certain level of creativity (Schöpfungshöhe) can be under copyright.

      • sic_1@feddit.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        And how is that determined? I found the shit that I took this morning immensely creative.