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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:11AM (#760758)

    As in title. And the reality is that using links is now avoided. With appearing of Google, linking became a measurement of site's popularity, I see more and more cases in which users don't want to link just for pure envy for other people's sites popularity. Modern link exchange is relatively small comparing to e.g. personal website microcosmos in its top age. Even in Web 2.0 begin of centralization.
    CC? Really? In January we plan to send one of world's largest CC photos repo right to /dev/null, I don't think people will pay for hosting for their CC stuff. CC will disappear with Web 1.0 personal websites.
    So, it is the same adaptation of a media to shift it from hands of citizens to hands of publishers, as it was with newspapers, radio and TV. Even in the Internet independent publishing is minimized and costs are artificially inflated to make only big companies able to publish.
    And post-Internet equivalent of samizdat underground pamphlets? Harder than any people who had contact with samizdat think, as media programmed us for not reaching for such things. The "common denominator" I found in modern media, the meme programmed in and present in every transmission, is something like like "New is bad until it's advertised".