The leader of the German Social Democrat (SPD) youth organization (Juso) Kevin Kuehnert Friday called on Germans to participate in major demonstrations on Saturday against a planned European copyright reform. The demonstrations, which have been announced in more than 50 German cities and many more throughout Europe, aim to convince undecided members of the European Parliament to vote against the proposed European Union (EU) copyright reform, Kuehnert told the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine. The controversial copyright reform Article 13 would create significantly more copyright protection obligations for platforms such as YouTube. Although the use of upload filters has not been explicitly prescribed in the law, critics feared that these filters would be the only way for platforms to comply with the requirements. "As a result of Article 13, numerous platforms would have to automatically filter all content before it is published and block an upload in case of doubt," said Bernhard Rohleder, president of the German digital association Bitkom.

Source: Xinhua