Re:Proposed bill allows content sites to collectively negoti...
by Terretta on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:24PM
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Quoting: "BILL to provide a temporary safe harbor for publishers of online content to collectively negotiate with dominant online platforms regarding the terms on which content may be distributed."
TL;DR:
The proposed bill would let eligible digital journalism providers (such as news websites) bypass anti-trust laws. They can temporarily join together and negotiate with a covered platform (such as a social media company) to charge for access to / distribution of content.
During negotiations, each side (the joint negotiation group and a platform) must make reasonable offers about pricing, terms, and conditions for access to content.
These offers should be based on data and methodologies that reflect: (a) comparable agreements between similar companies; (b) value of content to the covered platform; (c) investment in original news by members of the joint negotiation entity.
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Because it's the thing, here's what GPT-3 text-davinci-003 thinks this bill is about:
In this bill, two groups of people are trying to work out how much money the first group should get from the second group.
One side is made up of companies that make news stories and other content for people to read or watch online. The other side is a company that helps spread those stories all over the world so more people can see them.
For these two sides to agree on how much money the news people should get for their stories, they need to look at what similar cases have done before and figure out what would be fair in this case.
They also need to think about how much time and effort it took for the news side to make their stories, as well as all of the extra money they could get if more people saw them because of help from the platform side.
// I don't know where it came up with the last phrase, since it's OpenAI writing and not Zuck!
Re:Proposed bill allows content sites to collectively negoti...
by wahern on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:11AM
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Tangential (doesn't directly address or refute your point), but I found it interesting that while most of this bill's sponsors are Democrats, three of the (5?) Republican sponsors, Kennedy, Graham and Collins, also voted in favor of the 2nd railroad worker related bill which would have mandated paid sick leave. Almost every Democrat in both houses also voted for that bill, and almost no Republicans did; it ultimately failed as it couldn't overcome a Senate filibuster. Almost as notable is that Manchin is a sponsor of this bill but was the sole Democrat in the Senate to vote down paid sick leave.
TL;DR:
The proposed bill would let eligible digital journalism providers (such as news websites) bypass anti-trust laws. They can temporarily join together and negotiate with a covered platform (such as a social media company) to charge for access to / distribution of content.
During negotiations, each side (the joint negotiation group and a platform) must make reasonable offers about pricing, terms, and conditions for access to content.
These offers should be based on data and methodologies that reflect: (a) comparable agreements between similar companies; (b) value of content to the covered platform; (c) investment in original news by members of the joint negotiation entity.
---
Because it's the thing, here's what GPT-3 text-davinci-003 thinks this bill is about:
In this bill, two groups of people are trying to work out how much money the first group should get from the second group.
One side is made up of companies that make news stories and other content for people to read or watch online. The other side is a company that helps spread those stories all over the world so more people can see them.
For these two sides to agree on how much money the news people should get for their stories, they need to look at what similar cases have done before and figure out what would be fair in this case.
They also need to think about how much time and effort it took for the news side to make their stories, as well as all of the extra money they could get if more people saw them because of help from the platform side.
// I don't know where it came up with the last phrase, since it's OpenAI writing and not Zuck!