 Happy to introduce a journalist in the media analyzed analyzed That has full of you know this European Work and the US work with the copyright directive and this have been a big issue here So we welcome you Emanuel Carlsten welcome Great. Thank you So the world of journalism is Not in crisis but in media houses are I had an experience last year Where I understood three things That journalism is always going to be a necessity to a civil society That it will be paid for by readers, but the purpose must always be very clear. So I'm a journalist I'm a columnist. I'm a media analyst and I Write on the things that are overlooked or forgotten by Traditional media most of the times this means stories on social media could also mean Things when or times when politicians or politics are doing things to internet. So last year in May I stumbled across this piece of legislation in the European Union called the copyright directive it It was weird to me and I started to research this and it was a shilling read it contained especially two articles and one article 11 the colds later called the link text and that would And or actually suggested that media houses are losing money and because of they are losing money every site every blog or every Everyone pretty much that wants to link to a news story needs to to pay they need to pay to then to the media house a pretty much and Even Google search needed to pay if they wanted to show a snippet of text from the news story in the Google search results So this was of course weird because it was threatening the and taxing the very foundation of internet the hyper link And then there was this other article called article 13, which was later called the upload filter Demanding all social media platforms to filter every content Uploaded on their platform in search for copyright infringement if the text image video or audio would contain any copyrighted content It should be blocked before even published So I read this and I understood that no other media houses No other journalists were reporting on this and it was weird so I wrote my column on this and I summarized it like this How about a filter that reads what your uploads writes and publishes and instantly removes it if it's illegal dystopic hardly because Sweden has already approved it and you is about to follow This blew up online, of course, especially with young readers because they perhaps more than others understood its Implication that this was in fact one of the big Decisions of our generation if every piece of content should be stripped of copyrighted information It would be difficult to ever upload something even if just recording something from your room You would have perhaps music in the background or a poster a painting on the wall Which would be a copyrighted infringement and that would mean that the video could not be uploaded other journalists even EU correspondence that's full-time in the European Parliament covering story said well you're overreacting This is nothing this will never be passed and if it will be passed it will be a must Much more altered version of it. This is normal process pretty much So don't worry about it, but in connect community. They reacted the opposite way They put together petitions that gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures to protest against this Wikipedia in Poland Germany and Spain blacked out their sites in protest of the directive and the members of Parliament Started receiving so many calls and emails and just reactions that they said they never experienced anything like it on any other single issue or question still Media outlets were not reporting on it and soon members of Parliament started thinking about this What's what is this could this really be the biggest thing in our term in in the European Parliament? Is there something else behind this they started thinking or suggesting or looking for alternate alternative explanations? Thinking perhaps these are just bots. These are not citizens They're just bots coming to us to kind of manipulate the process perhaps Facebook and Google is behind these reactions and they are not real people and They started saying this publicly and they decided privately as well And I know this because I decided to travel to the Parliament myself out of my own pocket to to witness and cover the for this votes On the Parliament in Strasbourg in France and I talked to them and they said this to me as well They really believed that they were not really citizen It was just Facebook that kind of manipulated the legislative process and I was astonished surprised it was Shocking pretty much because because it was citizens that we were talking about really So when the vote on the director was passed on the Parliament the whole Parliament actually decided to stand up because they felt They did something good They had stood up against whoever is was behind all of this and I was shocked because it was a complete Thunderous applause for two to themselves for actually standing up on this. Do you have a clip of that? Oh We don't have a clip of that. All right. Anyway, so there was thunderous applause Of them just standing up and it was weird because if it was if they had won a victory against who I don't know So after the vote In Parliament, it was only me and one other journalist that actually wanted to talk to the the leading Reparateur of the directive Axel boss and it was weird because I felt in Sweden that no one was reporting about it But I just figured that when I came to the Parliament I would see a lot of other reporters being there covering its in-depth story, but it was only me and one other Dutch Guy, oh, there we go with the thunderous applause All right, it was only me and one other Dutch guy trying to interview this guy this This rapporteur of the direct very reactive and by me just asking a few questions to him about the directive about what he has voted on It became clear that he had no idea of the in-depth Implications of the directive and I could do breaking stories that had spread both in my country and in the whole Europe by just being They're talking to the politicians so The directive had passed it has not passed completely that passed into a final trial of talks and Was due to be have one final vote left before it was supposed to be a law in the in the countries of the European Union It was six months later March 2019 this year So by now I realized how big support it was I had a great following the readers I had many readers on my story and I thought could I go from publishing in traditional media to publish on my own blog On my own site and do it free and open for everyone Could I ask my readers that I felt was more and more depending on my reporting on this story to to cover my expenses to cover to pay me really to travel for the final vote and Allow me to report on it as open as possible accessible as possible when there are free and open that license CC by So I did that. I decided to create Kickstarter asking Please help me. I'm going to two days to Strasbourg to cover the final vote. I'm asking for 3,000 euros Help me fund this trip and with the one hour it was funded and I was just astonished, of course I didn't know what to expect and I said, okay I'll add another day for a thousand more euros and it was funded in within minutes so I thought okay, so Double the sum I'll bring another photographer with me will be two journalists and we'll also go to a trip to the biggest To the biggest protest demonstration wherever it is in Europe and we'll cover it and we'll do video Photography text whatever you want and we'll just go and with that in a day was funded as well Okay, I'll add a translator It'll be on standby the whole time and he'll translate everything to English and with in another day Or within the time it was funded as well and then I really didn't have anything else to fund So I was just happy with that right so I traveled we went to to Strasbourg and We had this with this commander support this little team and we actually went before that to Berlin to cover this big protest It was the biggest one in Berlin hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets protesting against this Directive and of course we also went to Strasbourg to cover the final vote Which was passed by by five votes not amended by five modes only five votes Among the 700 members of Parliament And I can tell you a lot of stories about that from being there and a lot of things that our cumbersome are Difficult about that, but that's not the main point. That's not the main point Why I'm here today The main point is how this was showcasing to me how journalism will financially survive That when made clear to readers how their money to support journalism will make a difference not only for them But for the society they will have no problem paying for open accessible journalism So when I came home I just said okay So this is over its past But if you want me to keep an eye open I'll do that as well for how it will be implemented in the European countries the following Years and sure and no problem. They funded that well that as well So I can just keep an eye open for it for it and all of this proves to me how bright the future of journalism is That media houses might collapse, but what something dies something new will resurrect So we as a society Have an important mission to keep good information to the open to the public so they can be informed make better Decisions and I know this is not new to Wikipedia. This is how you are funding your whole the whole process I guess but for journalism. This is groundbreaking and when the Guardian last week announced that they finally Profitable it was because they asked readers. Please help us fund our journalism to keep it accessible to keep it open And they're profitable for the first times in decades, and I believe this is the future To collectively fund good content to be open and free for the benefits of all Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you and to hand over a token of appreciation. We have wiki Media Sweden have donated in your name to the UN DP. Wow, great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you