An upcoming EU court decision could strip half a billion EU citizens of their copyright protection, and all because of an accidental translation error.

In practice, it means that a link to your stolen family photos (which would never happen because the cloud is so secure, right?) would be free to circulate and there’s nothing an EU citizen could do to have the link taken down.

The story has a surreal quality, as international experts can't understand how the EU's highest court is talking itself out of the international copyright system.

[theregister.co.uk...]
This is happening under a new EU specific copyright theory of "The New Public". It also means that if the EU goes this route that they are breaking their Berne Convention obligations, and in which case, everyone OUTSIDE the EU can use that unprotected content. Scary thoughts any way you look at it.