#link-taxes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #link-taxes, aggregated by home.social.
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Sharing material used to be the norm for newspapers, and should be for LLMs
Even though parents insist that it is good and right to share things, the copyright world has succeeded in establishing the contrary as the norm. Now, sharing is deemed a bad, possibly illegal thing. But it was not always thus, as a fascinating speech by Ryan Cordell, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Department of English at the […]
#ai #children #ecosystem #linkTaxes #llms #newspapers #panic #parents #reUse #selections
https://walledculture.org/sharing-material-used-to-be-the-norm-for-newspapers-and-should-be-for-llms/
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CW: Long thread/16
This is a *much* better approach than the profit-sharing arrangements that are being trialed in Australia, Canada and France (these are sometimes called #NewsBargainingCodes or #LinkTaxes). Funding the news by guaranteeing it a share of Big Tech's profits makes the news into partisans for that profit - not the Big Tech watchdogs we need them to be.
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This is a *much* better approach than the profit-sharing arrangements that are being trialed in Australia, Canada and France (these are sometimes called #NewsBargainingCodes or #LinkTaxes). Funding the news by guaranteeing it a share of Big Tech's profits makes the news into partisans for that profit - not the Big Tech watchdogs we need them to be.
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CW: Long thread/18
We don't want the news to be Big Tech's *partners* - we need them to be Big Tech's *watchdogs*. #LinkTaxes and other profit-sharing arrangements between the media and tech cut against the civic energy Stites wants to build.
(You can read more about this - along with policy prescriptions for halting Big Tech's rent-extraction from the news - in "Saving the News From Big Tech," my @EFF white-paper:)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
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We don't want the news to be Big Tech's *partners* - we need them to be Big Tech's *watchdogs*. #LinkTaxes and other profit-sharing arrangements between the media and tech cut against the civic energy Stites wants to build.
(You can read more about this - along with policy prescriptions for halting Big Tech's rent-extraction from the news - in "Saving the News From Big Tech," my @EFF white-paper:)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
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#Canada #C18 #LinkTaxes #BigTech #News #Media #Journalism #Meta #Google #TargetedAds: "The link tax laws passed around the world have typically been justified on the grounds that companies such as Google and Meta are are using links drive traffic to news sites, but keeping any profits from advertising in the process. In other words, online advertising means Google and Meta have taken control of the online advertising that used to be the mainstay of news publishers.
As a previous PIA article explained, today’s advertising system is based on constant surveillance of site visitors, but Google and Meta retain most of the revenue. In other words, if C-18 aims to fix the publishing industry’s financial challenges, the solution isn’t introducing link taxes that don’t address the real problem. Instead, news publishers could move to context-based advertising, which respects the privacy of visitors, and doesn’t hand most of the ad revenue to intermediaries like Google and Meta."
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/canadas-new-c-18-link-tax-law/
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#Canada #C18 #LinkTaxes #BigTech #News #Media #Journalism #Meta #Google #TargetedAds: "The link tax laws passed around the world have typically been justified on the grounds that companies such as Google and Meta are are using links drive traffic to news sites, but keeping any profits from advertising in the process. In other words, online advertising means Google and Meta have taken control of the online advertising that used to be the mainstay of news publishers.
As a previous PIA article explained, today’s advertising system is based on constant surveillance of site visitors, but Google and Meta retain most of the revenue. In other words, if C-18 aims to fix the publishing industry’s financial challenges, the solution isn’t introducing link taxes that don’t address the real problem. Instead, news publishers could move to context-based advertising, which respects the privacy of visitors, and doesn’t hand most of the ad revenue to intermediaries like Google and Meta."
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/canadas-new-c-18-link-tax-law/
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CW: Long thread/20
However, both the EU and the US - as well as Canada and Australia - have focused their news industry legislating on misguided #LinkTaxes, where tech giants are required to pay license fees to link to and excerpt the news. This is an approach grounded in the mistaken idea that tech giants are stealing media companies' content - when really, tech giants are stealing their *money*:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/18/news-isnt-secret/#bid-shading
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However, both the EU and the US - as well as Canada and Australia - have focused their news industry legislating on misguided #LinkTaxes, where tech giants are required to pay license fees to link to and excerpt the news. This is an approach grounded in the mistaken idea that tech giants are stealing media companies' content - when really, tech giants are stealing their *money*:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/18/news-isnt-secret/#bid-shading
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