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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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

      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?

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        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.