| The proposal to change copyright law and stifle creativity and freedom on the internet could become official EU policy very soon. This could be the death blow for our internet. Will you call a Member of the European Parliament today? Take action now | | Friend, Europe's proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market – the new copyright laws – could soon deliver the death blow to a creative and free internet. The influential Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament is currently in the process of deciding its position on which amendments to adopt. If the most dangerous amendments pass, everything you put on the internet will be filtered, and even blocked. It doesn't even need to be commercial — some proposals are so broad even your photos that you upload for friends and family would be included. Linking to and accessing information online is also at stake: extending copyright to cover news snippets will restrict our ability to learn from a diverse selection of sources Can you call a Member of European Parliament (MEP) today? Our new calling tool will connect you to an MEP, in your preferred language, at no cost to you. What's worse is that this new proposed directive gives even more power to big companies like record labels or publishers to stifle competition. The proposal reads like a total giveaway to big copyright holders, with not much in it for the rest of us. You can only imagine how much harder it will be for up-and-coming musicians, artists, and writers to make their names when a big publisher or record label can stop them from sharing their self-produced content. It's vital that we act together now. If MEPs hear from enough of us in the next few weeks, they may back away from adopting these last-minute, dangerous proposals to their copyright plans. Can you take action now using our new, free call tool before it's too late? Yes, I'll call my MEP now to help save the internet Take action now From everyone here at Mozilla, thank you for defending the internet, Jon Lloyd
Advocacy Campaigns Manager
Mozilla P.S. Did you know that the European Commission recently paid €360,000 for a study on how piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies ... but never shared the report, possibly because it determined that there is no evidence that piracy is a major problem? Read more about it here on Gizmodo. | 
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