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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It needs a certain level of individuality and personality of the creator that sets it apart from other, already existing works of art.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would that be a way - have lots of your self created stuff on any device and then sue the corpos or sth for gaining illegal access to copyrighted materials in case they search it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

For personal things, computer, phones, etc. Big corpos cover this by a EULA. EULAs also covers forums controlled by the companies. For public places like websites, you can control search engines by using a robot.txt file.