User blog comment:TOR/Join us in protecting the freedom of user-generated content/@comment-11733175-20180907093001/@comment-6548012-20180907125547

The legislation references “effective content recognition technologies,” which doesn't mean having a team of jolly lads gently picking through the content to define what is a breach of copyright and what isn't. The legislation also references “cooperation with rightholders [...] to ensure the functioning of agreements concluded with rightholders for the use of their works,” which means the rightholders have a say and not Wikia, especially not you or me. So if it gets to be automated, saying the brand Coca-Cola could be turned into a problem because an algorithm does not make the difference between a casual conversation, a critique, a parody or a copyright violation. Also Fair Use is not European legislation.

As users and participants of collaborative encyclopediæ, it concerns us in the way in which all such websites are threatened by that, not just Wikia, so it's not about protecting a business model, rather than allowing the concept to exist. If FANDOM falls because of that, fine, but the problem is that there won't be anything to replace it so it's more about whether one would want neutral collaborative encyclopediæ to exist rather than just this website, which arguably does not have the same editing philosophy as, say, Wikipedia.