destroyed city. in the sense of i starts april eleventh. this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight a controversial internet copyright law european lawmakers say it's time to move the internet into the twenty first century there were protests ahead of the vote in the european parliament today critics worry that the changes could lead to censorship supporters who say it's time for online platforms to compensate content creators

fairly also coming up unfit to rule out syrian president thinks is fresh calls to step aside this time from the country's powerful army chief after weeks of protests bring an end to the nation's political crisis. it's good to have you with us and we begin tonight with sweeping changes here in the european union that could have a big impact on the content you see online the european union's parliament today voted to approve a controversial legislation to overhaul copyright law all the new legislation is aimed at online content and it aims to make internet platforms such as google and you tube but liable for copyright violations supporters say this will protect intellectual property opponents fear it could limit creativity and online freedom.

four years of intense argument came to a head in strasburg on cheese day when the european parliament debated copyright reform german law maker x. and fast negotiated the deal on behalf of the parliament thank you it's get on the page start list this is about the rule of law it's all one we're talking about is protecting a fundamental right it's about property and about the right to intellectual property and finally it's about fair payment for content creators it's up to us to save european cultural products and not to hand them over to tech monopolies for them to plunder. was. the aim of this reform is to require those who profit from content shared on the internet to obtain permission to do so and if necessary to pay the originators. of. people like musician alexander dommage who currently find it almost impossible

to benefit when their creative work is uploaded to the internet. this is about a fundamental right to creators who want to live from their efforts composers photographers whatever have a right to share in the commercial exploitation of their work that means to receive payment for the. critics fear the change will make the internet less free and lead to de facto censorship as legitimate content is mistakenly kept offline they also worry that small black forms will struggle to chase down all the licenses to use content. tens of thousands of people across europe have demonstrated against the plans many feel strongly regulation of the internet should be as light as possible although others say the protests were part of a managed campaign by big corporations like google. with european elections just

weeks away the issue of copyright on the internet has become intensely controversial. opponents of the reform say the change means content will be checked by automatic filters rather than human being. what the politicians expect algorithms to be able to do is to tell the difference between a copyright infringement and satire as long as artificial intelligence does not develop a sense of humor and this is something that's going to remain impossible i think we should not trust the block black box of an algorithm to tell us what we can and cannot post online. in the end the strasberg parliament voted in favor of the full package of copyright reforms by three hundred forty eight to two hundred seventy four. member states ms now formally approved the legislation before it can take effect or you want to explore both sides of this issue and to do that to my right is called assman from our social media desk into my far right is my colleague and

a musician as well warner paul and gentlemen it's good to have you here at the big desk that we start here with the musician so if you consider what was passed today then that would imply mourner that for years you have been short changed by these online platforms and that is true indeed and many others. these companies like you tube google facebook they've been using a lot of content of creative content and not really been bursting as properly and i mean the. they've. been paying a lot less than even competitors like spotify you know i mean it's really quite a quite a dire situation are you not able to demand a fair price well we will now we will now i mean they've had it they've had a deal in place with the german collection it's game a bit it's not been a very good one and this will now force them to actually properly license this material that they want to use and for luck it will be kind of like a blanket license where they make make deals with the whole industry so that there

is you know it gives us a better chance of getting a fair or maybe possibly even close to fair munition culture is that the situation here that they need the european union to come in and force these big platforms to you know deploy for what they're using let me take platforms are not going to evolve on their own we've seen that with facebook with all the legislation with go around that company however you know i think a lot of the protesters who don't support article three or thirteen would still support an artist's rights to make money and that's not really the issue here in terms of who is protesting what they say is they just don't like this law it's too broad it is. covers so much content not just music we're talking about movies images text anything that could be copyrighted but it's yet very vague it doesn't say how should a company like you tube or even a smaller company detects a copyrighted information from the billions of bits of information uploaded online every day they say they don't have the technology to do that so there is technology out there but it's just not very good you have you might need something like an

upload filter they call it which automatically scans the content before it's uploaded and will block it if it's copyrighted it's not good enough yet it's imperfect you have false positives and what the protesters say is it will catch copyrighted material that is being used legally maybe it's a remakes maybe it's a piece of art or or what have you that we could be stopped and that could stop freedom of expression on the internet is that a valid argument partially i think over you know there's so many there's so many instances where if you if you want to publish something you want to get something online or make a movie you have to do due diligence you can't just use old material and so i mean i think it's for me it's a bit of a cop out argument because you know there are rules and there are you know then you can't just take off and right now we're all content creators like we all tweet something we all upload upload to facebook and you know you could take a picture you could turn it into something funny and that would be then your own content so it's not just hard as it's really everyone everyone that uses the

internet it is a mindset that has to be changed i can remember once there was this gentleman who said if you go into a bookstore and you take a book without paying for that stealing but if the book is online and someone gives you the data a copy of the book and you take it do you consider that stealing and i think a lot of people would say well actually i don't but it is stealing at least for the author isn't it total in there that it's completely the music industry has suffered greatly it's not the same industry there was twenty years ago you know news news media is running you know i mean the print is fighting a downhill battle against this is well they get. you know what's in article eleven which was going to put this link tax in there as well you know i mean which might be a saving grace or some media. tax what is that exactly this is saying that google should no longer be able to take news from other platforms and put it into its google news search results without paying for it and some companies are ok with that they say

great we should get a little bit of money others say we want that reach we want to show up and google news results because we get a much bigger audience and maybe google would just say this is too much effort we don't even have service at the threat that if we don't accept no pay or low pay google will just not allow us to be shown i mean this just shows you how but how many problems really are with the internet that cannot be fixed with one e.t.u. directive i mean that of worms it is you open up a can of worms and you end up with more than we got ten seconds left when you expect to get the the money that is owed to you unfortunately it will take them at least twelve years for the european countries to. grow two years not twelve. well as they say is better than gentleman. called announcement gentlemen thank you very much. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the details are emerging about the process for a series of votes to be held by british lawmakers on wednesday it's part of efforts to reach a consensus on the way forward for the u.k.'s departure from the european union

employees will receive a list of different options and will be asked to rate their preferences in those options chinese president xi jinping has held talks with european union leaders in paris french president emanuel the european union's called younger and german chancellor angela merkel are trying to find a common approach to china's growing investments here in europe amid security and economic concerns nasa has canceled the first all female space walk due to a lack of available space suit in the right sun it's astronaut christina call you see on the left of your screen there was going to be joined by her. colligan mclean but there's only one medium sized suit is available a male astronaut we're now joined called on the space war on one through the hatch . in algeria the country's political crisis has taken a turn the nation's powerful army chief demanding that the president be declared unfit to rule the army is calling for the start of

a constitutional process that would put a caretaker leader in place. that has been in power for two decades and is now in failing health. algeria's reclusive an ailing president has faced weeks of protest demanding he step down. now the country's army chief has stepped in on the side of the protesters general ahmed guide salah declared president abilities beautifully get too ill to serve the general intends to trigger an article of the constitution that could bring down the president. that. this will be done with respect to villages to make demands of the algerian people. this is a solution that respects the constitution and it preserves the sovereignty of the states. if their quest is approved by parliament the

senate president will take charge of the government until new elections can be held elections had already been scheduled to take place in april but in february beautifully can announce his intention to run for a fifth term before postponing elections altogether. tens of thousands of algerians took to the streets of the past month to demand an end to his twenty year rule. general guide announcement came to many as welcome news. this is a brave decision and it's the first step on a path toward democracy a path that is still long we appreciate the step and we are waiting other steps the movement will continue until the realization of a democratic republic the second republic. it's a good step for the algerian people but we won't stop here we'll keep up the

movement and we will keep watching what happens until we reach our aim which is the change of government they all have to go god willing. the president's fate may now be in the hands of parliament which is likely to vote soon at the military's request. are sports news now in football england won five one against montenegro in their euro two thousand and twenty qualifier last night but the game was spoiled by racist chanting from home fans aimed at england's black players european football's governing body you wait for has watched disciplinary proceedings against montenegro one of the abused players was rocking sterling who happened to score a standout goal and tweeted that it was the best way to silence the haters and yes i mean racist he tweeted its goal celebration was aimed at the montenegro england players danny rose and callum hudson the were also on the field for england and within easy hearing distance of those racist so called monkey.

discrimination should be anywhere you know as i said equal. a game is enjoyed when you hear from the funds it's not right it's unacceptable and hopefully it will cause. me a rosy. stuff so i was enjoying the game as well and to his. eyes i said. it was so that we stayed with him. well the man who stabbed the wimbledon tennis champion petra. in her home was today sentenced to eight years in prison by a check court. was convicted of causing serious bodily harm in the attack which occurred during a robbery attempt back in two thousand and sixteen tendons and nerves in him until his left hand playing hands were damaged but she managed to return to the courts after about six months and is now very close to reclaiming the world number one

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