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What you can do right now to fight Article 13 and Article 11

We think the final Plenary negotiation on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market will take place on January 17th, 2019.

The fate of Article 13 – compulsory copyright filters – and Article 11 – a rule imposing controls on links to news without a license – will be decided at this meeting.

The vote among member states could go either for or against.

Germany is a key vote.

If you have any time to spare this January, please contact the German Federal government and let them know you do not want Article 13 (which would effectively mandate copyright filters) or Article 11 (which would require a license to quote even small snippets of news items).

More information at EFF’s Deeplinks, SaveYourInternet.eu, Julia Reda’s blog.

If you contact one person in January make it:

Email: ministerbuero@bmwi.bund.de

(Here’s the BMWi’s giant org chart if you’d like to know more.)

EFF and national digital rights groups will be sending out more information over the next two weeks, and when the Directive returns to the European Parliament.

But NOW is the best time to make your call, letter or personal visit to national governments count.

Even though four million people petitioned the EU to reject Article 13, politicians are being told by lobbyists that these objectors are just “bots”, controlled by “Big Tech”.

Write, call, or otherwise contact your national governments – and make sure they can’t ignore you as a bot. Tell your story. Give your background. Make it personal.