Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better

Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by valker43 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:54AM (#19084822)

Except this is a book store pretty much everyone on the internet visits daily. And the books aren't photo copies but small synopses and blurbs.

If you want to go further you get the whole thing on the creators page, which, surprise, is ad-supported or paywalled. Big content creators basically want the ad revenue (which they get, in large, via portals like Google) and a payment from the portals for the service of getting them that ad-revenue.

Previous such legislation in Spain and Germany was a complete disaster. Spain is now without Google News and ad-revenue is down for many content creators. Germany content producers basically caved and gave Google banket permission to list their stuff.

This is a power move originating from the biggest publishers (which will be the only ones potentially profiting). The smaller outlets are actually against it.

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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by yeahitslikethat on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:18AM (#19084984)

I just can't imagine why it sounds like you are arguing against me while describing exactly the problem.

That Google can force a comply or die decision on content producers is exactly the problem.

I don't accept the "they are too big to be required to follow the law like everyone else" argument. I don't accept that Jane's bookstore has to follow the law but Google doesn't.

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