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on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:46PM
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
A new Copyright Directive is being drafted for Europe. Within that process the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) has agreed to an amendment that would greatly reduce citizens' rights in regards to online material and even digital material in general. The "snippet tax" aka "link tax" would require licenses for even the tiniest quotations of published material as well as mandating upload filters. Either of these would effectively ban sites like SoylentNews from Europe, but scholarly publishing would suffer as badly.
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EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:11AM (7 children)
Something to keep in mind when considering the ideas on the recent discussions about microtransactions. Once every blog post is collecting a microtransaction, it will be impossible to deny a demand to "pass some of it on" to every place quoted from. It will quickly cause the Internet to sink under the weight of the lawyers who will have to be involved.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:39AM (6 children)
Facebook is already working on the infrastructure to manage these kinds of payments [go.com]. If they get their way, breaking Net Neutrality via zero-rating or whatever, your surfing and written communication will all have to go through them and they'll charge both coming and going. "Publishers" will get something that they'll feed to the politicians but Facebook itself won't be able to resist skimming some percentage off each transaction to ensure that they're still available even it is the only site still up.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:03AM (4 children)
Maybe it's Facebook that has lobbied this piece of citizen hostile amendment proposal?
Otoh, French politicians have a slight history of trying to restrain and tax "bad culture", usually anything non-french.
The open access journal amendment have a slight Evilvier taste to it.
Find guilty members here [europa.eu]. The question is however who of these that voted this hostile proposal to even come into existence? Know which persons that are responsible and which parties that are responsible would enable voting and shaming them permanently. They are obviously crazy or in someones pocket.
EU copyright reform goes from bad to worse [privateinternetaccess.com] (2017-07-17)
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:48PM (3 children)
Maybe it's Facebook that has lobbied this piece of citizen hostile amendment proposal?
Why would they? They'd have to pay the tax on every link every user posted. There's no money in this for them, only lost revenue.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:44PM (2 children)
So who is likely to lobby this through EU?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday July 24 2017, @02:50PM (1 child)
Film companies, music companies, and of course text publishers. Maybe even newspapers.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:04PM
Come to think about it. Newspapers seems really suspect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @07:52AM
I guess Facebook already has ones name, address, and banking credentials anyway. So many people out there seem so naive about guarding information which is easily used to benefit the shyster at the expense of the happy-go-lucky naive Facebook user.
These are the very same people who go off all in a twat when their computer becomes infected with one of those cryptolocker thingies.
Yet they seem to see no correlation that the same thing can just as easily happen to their finances?
I really wonder about people. The amount of naivety I see is about the same of watching the cattle on the farm grow up, knowing good and well what we were gonna do with them. I am watching the elite take every thing they have away, and they hardly say a word.
Geez. Are these people really even worth helping? Will it do any good? Or just let them go, smiling, into the world of debt slavery?