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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 11 2018, @12:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the taxing-the-legend-of-zelda dept.

The Creative Commons, the international non-profit devoted to expanding the range of creative works available legally, summarizes how the EU's proposed link tax would still harm Creative Commons licensors. The proposed Copyright Directive legislation entered the final rounds of negotiation back in September, retaining the problematic articles that raised hackles earlier this year, notably articles 11, 12, and 13. The Creative Commons discusses the current stat of article 11, known informally as the link tax.

Article 11 is ill-suited to address the challenges in supporting quality journalism, and it will further decrease competition and innovation in news delivery. Spain and Germany have already experimented with similar versions of this rule, and neither resulted in increased revenues for publishers. Instead, it likely decreased the visibility (and by extension, revenues) of published content—exactly the opposite of what was intended. Just last week a coalition of small- and medium-sized publishers sent a letter to the trilogue negotiators outlining how they will be harmed if Article 11 is adopted.

Not only is a link tax bad for business, it would undermine the intention of authors who wish to share without additional strings attached, such as creators who want to share works under open licenses. This could be especially harmful to Creative Commons licensors if it means that remuneration must be granted notwithstanding the terms of the CC license. This interpretation is not far-flung. As IGEL wrote last week, [...]

Previously on SN:
Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here's Where We Stand
EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing?
How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven
European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday November 11 2018, @03:25PM (9 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday November 11 2018, @03:25PM (#760647) Journal

    Dark Mode is a good option. People are crazy for it in 2018, and it's easy on the eyes. I'm making a new, darker theme for SoylentNews right now.

    I would add a dedicated Space section under Environment, populating it with at least these sources:

    NASA.gov (or JPL [nasa.gov])
    https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ [nasaspaceflight.com]
    https://spacenews.com/ [spacenews.com]
    http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/ [spaceflightinsider.com]
    https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/ [arstechnica.com]
    https://www.space.com/ [space.com]
    http://spaceref.com/ [spaceref.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 11 2018, @03:38PM (3 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 11 2018, @03:38PM (#760650) Journal

    I'm making a new, darker theme for SoylentNews right now.

    Squeeee!!!!!

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @04:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @04:33PM (#760655)

      if that's a positive "sqeeee", then i agree. i can't deal with white/light grey "backgrounded" sites these days.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 12 2018, @02:12AM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday November 12 2018, @02:12AM (#760773) Journal

      For now, it's going to be a copy of VT100, except everything that is green becomes light red instead. Links and certain other text (like "*New*") will be a lighter pink color to make them easier to distinguish. Then I might make a couple of aesthetic changes and finally split it into two versions: "Seeing Red" and "Arik Seeing Red" (the latter is monospaced, of course).

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      • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday November 12 2018, @08:58PM

        by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 12 2018, @08:58PM (#761040) Journal

        I can do VT100
         
        Heck, one of my early computer projects was building an H19 (Heathkit VT100 clone) with my mother who was a bit of a proto-geek. I still can't believe we didn't screw it up, used it for years.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:10PM (#760669)

    Dark Mode is a good option.

    Seeing how recent studies [soylentnews.org] show black-on-white themes cause myopia, I'd say dark themes should be the default everywhere.

  • (Score: 1) by ZaqsNews on Sunday November 11 2018, @08:54PM (2 children)

    by ZaqsNews (7176) on Sunday November 11 2018, @08:54PM (#760708)

    Thanks for the links! I've been hesitant at sub-categories because sometimes there's not enough content to have ordered groups of similar stories, but maybe listing sub-category stories by time is good enough. So click 'Space' under Environment (or Science?), see a time-ranked list of all headlines from certain sites and others by keyword. Glad I posted here.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 12 2018, @01:53AM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday November 12 2018, @01:53AM (#760769) Journal

      I just meant under Environment on the sidebar, not as a subset of Environment. "Space" is a pretty large chunk of "Science" stories these days, to the point where it ought to get its own section. That also allows the combination of stories that are science related, like asteroids, telescopes, exoplanets, planetary science, SETI/exobiology, etc. as well as stories that are more business ("techonomics") related, such as rocket launches, satellite TV/Internet, asteroid mining, or even political stories such as 2018 election implications for space policy [theatlantic.com] and news of the "Space Force" [thehill.com]. Since the sources in question are likely to report on both, filtering can be minimal in some cases (e.g. The Verge runs space and non-space stories but NASASpaceFlight.com is all space, all the time).

      The recent Google News redesign added some subcategories or whatever you want to call them, and I initially thought they were dynamically generated. Now I realize that Google really wants us to check out Virtual Reality news on the Technology section. There are a couple of pretty good dedicated sites for that topic, such as UploadVR and RoadToVR.

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