#SaveOurInternet 7: Queen Anna Gloria Does Something

This Christmas may be the last one that a free Internet exists within the EU, to the detriment of many people in the creative professions. When I first went into blogging and publishing fanfiction online over five years ago, I thought this day would never come. There would be a requiem and a ban on parodies, on sharing images and stories that move us for free, on filk lyrics and fanfiction, and pirate translations of works outside the public domain... The Members of Parliament turn a deaf ear to all of us in the creative and the electronic world, and thus, next year... if we all don't come together and do something against this Article 13, everything we know and love will fall apart.
Now I know how Odin must have felt with the forebodings of Ragnarök. But who am I to be then... Odin or Enjolras? Feeling powerless against the rising tide, or not? Not only is my career as a currently unemployed translator at stake; many other creative professionals will be facing the same dire consequences - if we don't do something ourselves.
Most surely, this year's Advent Calendar will be about Save Our Internet and have to do with the history of copyright and resistance to it - maybe this very introductory article will be barred because the name of Enjolras (or any other Les Mis character) would be as encouragingly mentioned as Macbeth, if we just sit there idly instead of coming together for the cause.

Queen Anne's Act - In Which the Last Stuart Queen Does Something (First There Were Only 14 Years!)
Right from the days of John Locke, these laws were NOT created with payment in mind. Patronage, up until the revolutions of the nineteenth century, was the way creative artists earned their living. (THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE SANS-CULOTTERIE ATTACKED)
The only people threatened with the free circulation of works were the Stationers themselves, who had the need to seek financial rewards through new copies.
This Queen Anne, the last Stuart Queen of the UK, was the Anna Gloria you may know that came before the four Georges.