Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped
I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.
https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/
#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Kelowna #Liberal #LinkTax #MP #OnlineNewsAct #StephenFuhr
@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. đŤŁ
But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.
I don't think most...
Yes, letâs âMake it Fairâ â by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly
A few weeks ago, the UKâs regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to âMake it Fairâ. The campaign Web site explained:
Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI models.
Publishers and creators say that doing [âŚ]
#creators #dailies #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #journalists #linkTax #newspapers #optOut #publishers #ratchet #snippetTax #sustainability #tax #theft #training #uk
PS: As a IT guy, you should also understand, that actually cutting off an internet service that has millions of users that WANT to access it, it going to be very difficult.
Even more so, as few credible european alternatives exist, a fact not helped by europe caring more about legacy media companies than user rights which would be one of its few selling points. (Just remember the #uploadfilter and #linktax debacle.)
Europe dont see users as people having rights... it sees users as something that should be milked without rights from european companies instead of US ones. đ
The #EuropeanUnion and the goverments of the member states have done very little in the last 2 decades that benefits me as an internet user but have done lot of things that violate my interests in multiple ways.
So I trust them even less than just the - wise - distrust anyone should have about even a democratically elected goverment.
@AssociatedPress @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress
The very idea of a #linktax /publishers right is incredible stupid and unjustified.
Digital platforms are perfectly right to deny legacy media paymemt for something that legacy media benefits from far more than the other way arround.
The internet does not need legacy media, but legacy media needs the internet. With this basic fact out of the way, it is painfully obvious who should pay whom - if at all.
We made a similar mistake in Europe with the idiotic copyright reform of 2019. It achieved absolutly nothing besides making life more miserable for every european internet user and further reducing the already weak european digital economy.
European search engines - that cannot afford years of litigation from greedy legacy media - now pay for news while Google - who can afford any law suit while legacy media cannot afford to be not listed on google - does not.
The idea is idiotic and should be trashed.
Und das ist - neben der zweifelhaften grundsätzlichen Sinnhaftigkeit - auch einer der GrĂźnde warum ich alles derartige strikt ablehne. Denn einmal eingefĂźhrt, ist der Weg zu einer Ausweispflicht fĂźr alle nur noch sehr kurz. Du musst beweisen dass du Ă16 bist..... bei der Gelegenheit protokollieren wir gleichnochmal alle Daten die wir jetzt eh schon haben. FĂźr später..... irgendeinen Nutzen finden wir schon.... und sei es der Verkauf an den HĂśchstbietenden.
Zwar mag so eine #Klarnamenpflicht manchen attraktiv erschienen, macht sie es doch - theoretisch - einfacher Hassposter zu identifizieren, allerdings ist der Preis dafĂźr durchaus hoch.... auch viele vernĂźnftige Stimmen wĂźrden damit verstimmen.
Australians "Springer Konzern" die Murdoch Medien Gruppe hat ßbrigens ähnlich wie fßr den #LinkTax auch hier massiv fßr das Gesetz lobbyiert. Hautpsächlich weil man sich damit ßber Umwege mehr Epressungsmaterial gegenßber BigTech und natßrlich auch einen Gewinn an eigener Reichweite erhofft.
Genauso wie bei #Uploadfiltern und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax werden #niemehrcdu und #NieMehrSPD natĂźrlich auch hier schon bald wieder eine Entscheidung gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und gegen die Interessen der BevĂślkerung treffen.
Freut Euch schon mal darauf, fĂźr Eure Urlaubsfotos in der Cloud Abgaben zahlen zu mĂźssen.
Ieri sera mi è capitato di sentire in radio Gasparri sostenere la #LinkTax quale garanzia dell'indipendenza dell'informazione. Val la pena ricordare perchÊ è una pessima idea.
"Saving the News From Big Tech" âĄď¸ https://mastodon.cisti.org/@roughconsensusandrunningcode/110390636700711895
Mainstream Media Calls on Meta to Give Them Free Money
Following the CRTC approval of Google's Online News Act Exemption, the mainstream media demanded Meta to do the same thing.
https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-calls-on-meta-to-give-them-free-money/
#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #CRTC #Facebook #Google #LinkTax #Media #Meta #OnlineNewsAct
Seemingly taking notes from Canada and Australia, New Zealand is currently considering its own flawed #LinkTax. The basis of this bill (and other link taxes) is rooted in the false belief that digital services pull revenue away from news sites by linking to them and then sending them traffic. https://buff.ly/3A78kJj
@jmaris The individual author or publisher has near-zero bargaining power, no matter how important they are culturally, because their individual presence makes zero difference to Facebook's profits. Entire genres and sectors can be removed with zero effect on Facebook's bottom line, as shown by the #LinkTax fights.
Only collective action by all authors together would change this, but a global union doesn't seem likely. I suggest a compulsory license/income tax to fund education and libraries.
While I am all for more european sovereignty, I honestly have major doubts that a european actor would serve my interests as a user better than big tech.
Europes track record regarding user rights is mostly dissapointing. European politicians have made my digital life only worse in the last 20 years with #Uploadfilters, #LinkTax, forcing legay copyright rules onto the digital age and cannot be trusted with protecting users rights and privacy at all.
I have no interest in any european digital company gaining any significant market share, until it proves beyond doubt that it can be trusted more with my rights as a user than american big tech. Which to date, it has not.
I want the freedom to choose the digital companies that serve me and I will not tolerate buying/using a worse product, just because it is made in Europe.
The link taxâs failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/
It does not seem that the right to appropriate share is currently making a substantial difference to the journalists and their incomes. #LinkTax #Copyright
Juicy licensing deals with AI companies show that publishers donât really care about creators
One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves confronted with deep-pocketed companies â both established ones like Google and Microsoft, [âŚ]
#academicPublishers #authors #creators #genai #generativeAi #google #licensing #linkTax #microsoft #newspaperPublishers #openai #publishers #taylorFrancis #training #wiley
One common myth in the #linktax debate is that digital services have âsiphoned offâ revenue from publication websites. Queensland University of Technology's Axel Bruns discusses why this is not the case here: https://buff.ly/4dh6keZ #MediaInnovation #Journalism
Indiegraf Mediaâs Erin Millar breaks down how Canadaâs C-18 significantly hindered innovation and investment through uncertainty in the market. https://buff.ly/47wofx4 #OnlineNewsAct #Canada #LinkTax
@glynmoody I doubt that any special interest groups actually thought #linktax would deliver meaningful benefits. What was to be delivered is a precedent for not just the data, but the "coordinates" of the data, being a commodity rather than a a commons. That mission, very much accomplished. #pubwan
The #linktaxâs failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the #copyright industry - https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/ one that it will doubtless refuse to learn....
The link taxâs failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry
It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many [âŚ]
#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers
https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/
Time spent working on a few more involved Fast Company assignments left me with just two bylines for the week.
8/22/2024: Google Agrees to Subsidize California Newsrooms to Avoid âLink Taxâ Mandate, PCMag
Three bits of context that Iâm glad I had time to add to this post: how a key clause of the California Journalism Preservation Act had changed since last summer, how newsroom managers might have a different attitude about their sites being crawled by an AI bot instead of a search-engine bot, and how much profit Google reported in its most recent quarter.
8/24/2024: Boeing Capsule to Return From ISS Uncrewed, Astronauts to Stay Until 2025, PCMag
The essential context for this piece was how a decade ago, many people in Washington wanted Boeing to get the only contract to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. In the alternate universe in which SpaceX got shut out of that bidding, Russia would have had a horrifying amount of leverage over NASA. Especially right now.
#Boeing #CaliforniaJournalismPreservationAct #CrewDragon #GoogleNews #InternationalSpaceStation #linkTax #nasa #SpaceX #Starliner
