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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
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 11 2018, @03:16PM (12 children)
ZAQS.org (English link: https://www.zaqs.org/home.html) [zaqs.org] is exactly the sort of thing targeted by this legislation.
The site is actually very interesting and I've bookmarked it to see how it develops, it currently suffers due to lack of capability to customize.
A configuration page with news sources listed along with a [X] box beside them to include or exclude them from results would be fantastic in this regard.
I rarely bother with Google News even though i have significantly customized my page there specifically because of the curating done on all things Google. I want to curate my own stuff to my personal tastes.
Some sites i like/dislike philosophically or politically. Others work better or worse with my particular browser configuration. Some I just don't subscribe to.
Options
[ ]Dark Background
Sections
[ ]Top Stories
[ ]World
[ ]US News
[ ]Politics
[ ]Business
[ ]Sports
[ ]Entertainment
[ ]Opinion
[ ]Technology
[ ]Health
[ ]Science
[ ]Environment
[ ]Weird
[ ]Custom Search [James Webb Telescope]
[ ]Custom Search [Mars Rover]
[ ]Custom Search[RandomFactor]
[+] Add Custom Search Section
Sources
[ ]ABC
[ ]CBS
[ ]Citizen Free Press
[ ]CNN
[ ]FOXNEWS
[ ]Daily Wire
[ ]Drudge Report
[ ]Elsevier Publishing
[ ]GAB
[ ]MSNBC
[ ]NASA-JPL
[ ]Nature
[ ]NYPost
[ ]NYTimes
[ ]OANN
[ ]PLOS
[ ]Twitter Trending
[ ]Washington Post
etc. etc.
Additionally Keyword news search based sections. So say I'm really interested in news about the "James Webb Telescope" i could have a section that selects for news with that keyword or phrase in it. I don't want to search every time I go there, i just want to see the section and if there is something of interest, drill in.
ZAQS might be pretty far down the hit list, but it would certainly be in the crosshairs of Article 11 sooner or later in some regard.
If you maintain assets in the EU, or any country that trades with the EU, or have any infrastructure that could be targeted by blocking, or have any kind of owner or address that could actually be served a lawsuit, you are in scope.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday November 11 2018, @03:25PM (9 children)
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)
Squeeee!!!!!
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @04:33PM
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)
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
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.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)
Seeing how recent studies [soylentnews.org] show black-on-white themes cause myopia, I'd say dark themes should be the default everywhere.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:58PM
And in a SHOCK revelation, Dark Mode has been found to improve mobile battery life:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18076502/google-dark-mode-android-battery-life [theverge.com]
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(Score: 1) by ZaqsNews on Sunday November 11 2018, @08:54PM (2 children)
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)
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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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 12 2018, @05:35AM
Part of my comment doesn't make sense due to a bad rewrite, but you get the idea.
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(Score: 2) by exaeta on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:35PM
If you live in the US just host all your services here.
All you have to say is that the website is intended for X speaking americans.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 2, Interesting) by ZaqsNews on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:58PM
Great suggestions! Never thought of dark mode. I'll get started on customization per your options. Dark mode, category selection on home page and custom searches should be easy. Selection of websites will be trickier to do well, might as well try though. Thanks.