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Australia Pushes for Existence Tax to Cover Up Failed Link Tax

Australia was completely humiliated when their link tax law went down in flames. Now, they are taxing Meta as compensation.

https://www.freezenet.ca/australia-pushes-for-existence-tax-to-cover-up-failed-link-tax/

#Business #Copyright #News #Australia #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #tax

Online News Act Golden Era: Rogers Slashes 10,000 Jobs

The supposed golden era of the Online News Act is continuing with Rogers slashing 10,000 employees.

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-golden-era-rogers-slashes-10000-jobs/

#Business #News #BillC18 #Canada #layoffs #LinkTax #OnlineNewsAct #Rogers

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Speaking of unprincipled media laws that produce totally predictable unintended consequences ...

Duncan and guest Tim Burrowes (ABC MediaLand) also discuss the fate of the Oz government's attempts to impose a link tax on DataFarmers. Which went wrong in all the ways tech activists warned about, and more;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on

(1/?)

#TechRegulation #LinkTax #DigitalAdTax #TimBurrowes

Schon das #Uploadfilter und #Leistungsschutzrecht #Linktax Debakel hat dem eh schwachen europäischen Digitalstandort schweren Schaden zugefügt... die #Chatkontrolle würde ihm wahrscheinlich den Rest geben.

#ChatkontrolleStoppen

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-in-der-kritik-wirtschaftsverbaende-bitkom-und-eco-klar-gegen-chatkontrolle/

@titaniumbiscuit @SchreibeEinfach

#Uploadfilter wurden eingeführt mit vielen der negativen Effekte von denen die Leute mit Ahnung vorab intensiv gewarnt hatten.

Übrigens hat #YouTube - wohl wissend das die neuen Haftungsregeln jeglicher kleineren europäischen Konkurrenz schwer zu schaffen machen werden - kurz nach der Entscheidung die Zwangswerbung + Anreiz zum Abo massiv ausgebaut und damit seine Einnahmen nocheinmal deutlich gesteigert. Bei gleichzeitiger Verschlechterung der Nutzererfahrung.. aber die haben ja kaum noch eine Wahl, den nur die größten aller Plattformen können diese idiotischen Haftungsregeln ohne größere Probleme stemmen.

Das #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax hat auch - wie vorhergesagt - nicht wirklich funktioniert, da es von völlig falschen Voraussetzungen ausgeht.

Alles in allem war die Reform für Nutzer schlecht, für viele Urheber schlecht, für den Wirtschaftstandort schlecht aber sie war gut für ein paar große Verwertungsgesellschaften und Digitalkonzerne.

EPIC FAIL😒

Mark Carney Mulling Rescinding the Online News Act

The Online News Act has been widely considered a complete and total failure. It seems rescinding it is a possibility.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mark-carney-mulling-rescinding-the-online-news-act/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #LinkTax #MarkCarney #OnlineNewsAct #US

@pneutig

Wir alle wünschen uns mehr europäische Digitalunternehmen... aber zur Wahrheit gehört auch, dass unsere Politik seit Jahren alles falsch macht, was man falsch machen kann. Von #Uploadfiltern über #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax zur #Chatkontrolle und #Vorratsdatenspeicherung .

Nie geht es um die Interessen der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer... sondern immer um die Interessen anderer.

So wird das nix.

Eine Altersbeschränkung für das Internet ist weder sinnvoll noch mit Freiheitsrechten zu vereinbaren. Es obliegt den Erziehungsberechtigten dafür Sorge zu tragen.

Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped

I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.

https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Kelowna #Liberal #LinkTax #MP #OnlineNewsAct #StephenFuhr

@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. 🫣

But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.

I don't think most...

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”. The campaign Web site explained:

Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI models.

Publishers and creators say that doing […]

#creators #dailies #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #journalists #linkTax #newspapers #optOut #publishers #ratchet #snippetTax #sustainability #tax #theft #training #uk

https://walledculture.org/yes-lets-make-it-fair-by-recognising-that-copyright-has-failed-to-reward-creators-properly/

@stroughtonsmith

PS: As a IT guy, you should also understand, that actually cutting off an internet service that has millions of users that WANT to access it, it going to be very difficult.

Even more so, as few credible european alternatives exist, a fact not helped by europe caring more about legacy media companies than user rights which would be one of its few selling points. (Just remember the #uploadfilter and #linktax debacle.)

Europe dont see users as people having rights... it sees users as something that should be milked without rights from european companies instead of US ones. 😒

The #EuropeanUnion and the goverments of the member states have done very little in the last 2 decades that benefits me as an internet user but have done lot of things that violate my interests in multiple ways.

So I trust them even less than just the - wise - distrust anyone should have about even a democratically elected goverment.

@AssociatedPress @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress

The very idea of a #linktax /publishers right is incredible stupid and unjustified.

Digital platforms are perfectly right to deny legacy media paymemt for something that legacy media benefits from far more than the other way arround.

The internet does not need legacy media, but legacy media needs the internet. With this basic fact out of the way, it is painfully obvious who should pay whom - if at all.

We made a similar mistake in Europe with the idiotic copyright reform of 2019. It achieved absolutly nothing besides making life more miserable for every european internet user and further reducing the already weak european digital economy.

European search engines - that cannot afford years of litigation from greedy legacy media - now pay for news while Google - who can afford any law suit while legacy media cannot afford to be not listed on google - does not.

The idea is idiotic and should be trashed.

@Witteg @tagesschau

Und das ist - neben der zweifelhaften grundsätzlichen Sinnhaftigkeit - auch einer der Gründe warum ich alles derartige strikt ablehne. Denn einmal eingeführt, ist der Weg zu einer Ausweispflicht für alle nur noch sehr kurz. Du musst beweisen dass du Ü16 bist..... bei der Gelegenheit protokollieren wir gleichnochmal alle Daten die wir jetzt eh schon haben. Für später..... irgendeinen Nutzen finden wir schon.... und sei es der Verkauf an den Höchstbietenden.

Zwar mag so eine #Klarnamenpflicht manchen attraktiv erschienen, macht sie es doch - theoretisch - einfacher Hassposter zu identifizieren, allerdings ist der Preis dafür durchaus hoch.... auch viele vernünftige Stimmen würden damit verstimmen.

Australians "Springer Konzern" die Murdoch Medien Gruppe hat übrigens ähnlich wie für den #LinkTax auch hier massiv für das Gesetz lobbyiert. Hautpsächlich weil man sich damit über Umwege mehr Epressungsmaterial gegenüber BigTech und natürlich auch einen Gewinn an eigener Reichweite erhofft.

Genauso wie bei #Uploadfiltern und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax werden #niemehrcdu und #NieMehrSPD natürlich auch hier schon bald wieder eine Entscheidung gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und gegen die Interessen der Bevölkerung treffen.

https://www.golem.de/news/zpue-vs-clouddienstleister-gerichtliches-nein-zur-privatkopie-abgabe-2410-189942.html

Freut Euch schon mal darauf, für Eure Urlaubsfotos in der Cloud Abgaben zahlen zu müssen.

Ieri sera mi è capitato di sentire in radio Gasparri sostenere la #LinkTax quale garanzia dell'indipendenza dell'informazione. Val la pena ricordare perché è una pessima idea.

"Saving the News From Big Tech" ➡️ https://mastodon.cisti.org/@roughconsensusandrunningcode/110390636700711895

Mainstream Media Calls on Meta to Give Them Free Money

Following the CRTC approval of Google's Online News Act Exemption, the mainstream media demanded Meta to do the same thing.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-calls-on-meta-to-give-them-free-money/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #CRTC #Facebook #Google #LinkTax #Media #Meta #OnlineNewsAct

@jmaris The individual author or publisher has near-zero bargaining power, no matter how important they are culturally, because their individual presence makes zero difference to Facebook's profits. Entire genres and sectors can be removed with zero effect on Facebook's bottom line, as shown by the #LinkTax fights.

Only collective action by all authors together would change this, but a global union doesn't seem likely. I suggest a compulsory license/income tax to fund education and libraries.

@lobbyctrl_tech

While I am all for more european sovereignty, I honestly have major doubts that a european actor would serve my interests as a user better than big tech.

Europes track record regarding user rights is mostly dissapointing. European politicians have made my digital life only worse in the last 20 years with #Uploadfilters, #LinkTax, forcing legay copyright rules onto the digital age and cannot be trusted with protecting users rights and privacy at all.

I have no interest in any european digital company gaining any significant market share, until it proves beyond doubt that it can be trusted more with my rights as a user than american big tech. Which to date, it has not.

I want the freedom to choose the digital companies that serve me and I will not tolerate buying/using a worse product, just because it is made in Europe.

Juicy licensing deals with AI companies show that publishers don’t really care about creators

One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves confronted with deep-pocketed companies – both established ones like Google and Microsoft, […]

#academicPublishers #authors #creators #genai #generativeAi #google #licensing #linkTax #microsoft #newspaperPublishers #openai #publishers #taylorFrancis #training #wiley

https://walledculture.org/juicy-licensing-deals-with-ai-companies-show-that-publishers-dont-really-care-about-creators/

One common myth in the #linktax debate is that digital services have “siphoned off” revenue from publication websites. Queensland University of Technology's Axel Bruns discusses why this is not the case here: https://buff.ly/4dh6keZ #MediaInnovation #Journalism

The #linktax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the #copyright industry - https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/ one that it will doubtless refuse to learn....

The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry

It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many […]

#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers

https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/

Time spent working on a few more involved Fast Company assignments left me with just two bylines for the week.

8/22/2024: Google Agrees to Subsidize California Newsrooms to Avoid ‘Link Tax’ Mandate, PCMag

Three bits of context that I’m glad I had time to add to this post: how a key clause of the California Journalism Preservation Act had changed since last summer, how newsroom managers might have a different attitude about their sites being crawled by an AI bot instead of a search-engine bot, and how much profit Google reported in its most recent quarter.

8/24/2024: Boeing Capsule to Return From ISS Uncrewed, Astronauts to Stay Until 2025, PCMag

The essential context for this piece was how a decade ago, many people in Washington wanted Boeing to get the only contract to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. In the alternate universe in which SpaceX got shut out of that bidding, Russia would have had a horrifying amount of leverage over NASA. Especially right now.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/25/weekly-output-google-agrees-to-california-news-deal-starliner-astronauts-to-get-a-spacex-ride-home/

#Boeing #CaliforniaJournalismPreservationAct #CrewDragon #GoogleNews #InternationalSpaceStation #linkTax #nasa #SpaceX #Starliner

Online News Act Caused Engagement to News Sites to Plummet by 43%

New research is adding to the growing body of evidence that the Online News Act has been devastating to the news sector.

Critics and experts like us have long warned of the consequences of the Online News Act, yet the government and the then

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-caused-engagement-to-news-sites-to-plummet-by-43/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #engagement #LinkTax #Media #OnlineNewsAct #traffic

Canadian Government Says It Wants to Charge Meta for News Screenshots

The Canadian government is considering doubling down on the disaster that was the Online News Act. Says it might charge Meta for screenshots of news.

Everything about the Online News Act has been a predictable disaster.

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-says-it-wants-to-charge-meta-for-news-screenshots/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #MichaelGeist #OnlineNewsAct #TaylorOwen

#Kühnert fordert Prozenthürde nach Wahlklatsche🙃

Genau, wenn man
2.490.000 Menschen so frustriert, dass sie #Nichtwähler werden, wenn man
1.450.000 Menschen an die #Union unter Friedich #Merz verliert,
580.000 an #sarahzarenknecht nochmal
570.000 an die #Nazis von der #FckAFD,
120.000 an die FDP und immer noch
80.000 an die Grünen,
dann sind natürlich die kleinen Parteien daran schuld, dass es für die #SPD nicht gut lief.

UnFunFact: Es gibt bereits eine Prozenthürde für die nächste #Europawahl, sobald Spanien sie auch ratifiziert hat. Sie wird mindestens 2 % und maximal 3,5 % betragen und es ist einfach zu erahnen, welche Präferenzen bezüglich der Höhe Kevin von der EX #Volkspartei diesbezüglich hätte.

"Wir müssen analysieren, warum uns junge Wähler nicht mögen". Ich gebe mal Nachhilfe:

#Uploadfilter
#Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax
#vorratsdatenspeicherung
#Chatkontrolle
Abhängigkeit von russland
Zerstören von #Wind und #Solar

Quelle:
https://youtu.be/VZy5tgCQLFg

@tagesschau

Ich bin immer noch sauer wegen ihrer Zustimmung zu dem #Uploadfilter und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax Desaster.

Auch sonst finde ich nicht, dass die SPD in den letzten 5 Jahren im Europaparlament relevantes erreicht hätte. Genauso nutzlos wie die #SPD im Bund. 😒

Ach ne, die Link-Steuer in Canada hat negative Auswirkungen auf die Zeitungsverlage? Das hat ja niemand kommen sehen …

#lsr #linktax #journalism

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-media-ban-effects/

Andrew Coyne very clearly articulates why the Canadian goverment's #C11 #LinkTax and #C18 internet #CanCon bills are actively harmful to Canadians and our access to #journalism and the #internet generally. Certainly we have challenges to face on these issues, but a good start would be not making things worse with misguided and heavy-handed regulations

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-government-dug-a-deep-hole-for-itself-with-bills-c-11-and-c-18-and/

#paywall

#Canada #C18 #META #SocialMedia #LinkTax #Journalism #Media #BigNews #BigTech #Newspapers: "The claims associated with the government’s regulation making process have been vastly overstated. Indeed, if it was the platforms making the claims, they would probably be called disinformation. About the only regulation that really matters right now involves Section 11, since it sets the criteria for an exemption from arbitration and approval of the deals between platforms and media companies. The reports about Google and the government negotiating aspects of the law surely involves what the exemption criteria is and how it will be interpreted. For example, the inclusion of a minimum spend by way of regulation would provide cost certainty and effectively have the government dictate to the CRTC how the criteria should be interpreted (namely, ignore them all if Google meets the spending target). The remainder are minor and have no real impact on how the law will be applied to Meta or Google.

When News Media Canada says “what we’re saying to Meta is, ‛The regulations aren’t drafted yet. Pick up a pen. Put down your saber and let’s try to work through this together” it’s a fake out designed to deceive. There are no regulations to be discussed that change the core elements of the law. It’s been decided, has received royal assent, and kicks in anytime within the next 120 days. News Media Canada and the associated lobby groups won the battle for Bill C-18. It’s the resulting consequences they don’t like."

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/the-bill-c-18-regulation-fake-out-setting-the-record-straight-on-when-bill-c-18-takes-effect-and-the-regulation-making-process/

@pre As a Canadian techie, I was telling everyone who would listen that this was the obvious and unavoidable outcome if bill C-18 was passed.

I wrote a (hopefully) funny thread about it.
https://mindly.social/@cazabon/110857550275035974

#C18 #LinkTax #facebook #google #DinosaurMedia #media #legacy

I think #Chekov said something to the effect of, you can't show the #audience a #performative, #senseless act of #parliament in Act One unless the #government shoots itself in the foot with it in Act Three.

#C18 #FootGun #AntonChekov #BigTech #DinosaurMedia #TechDirt #LinkTax

@techdirt @CrazyITGuy42

Techies: 'Fraid not. You're trying to #have your #cake, and #eat it too.

#Canadian #Legacy #Media: We don't get it. How do you eat your cake if you don't have it?

Techies: You didn't take any history classes, did you?

CLM: Why would we need those?

Techies: Anyways... as long as C-18 is in effect, you won't get any traffic or exposure.

CLM: That sucks! Fix it!

Techies: I give up.

17/17

#idiocy #insanity #WebTax #LinkTax #C18 #Canada #DinosaurMedia

Techies: So, anyways... what are you going to do now? Your site traffic has #collapsed, Canadian media #websites have essentially fallen off the face of the planet as far as the general public is concerned. Are you going to ask the #government to revoke C-18?

Government: We Shall ...

Techies: SHUT UP!

#Canadian #Legacy #Media: ... uh, we don't know. Is there a way that we get #paid, and we get the #traffic?

Techies: No.

CLM: How about if we #whine really #loudly?

16/x

#C18 #LinkTax

#Canadian #Legacy #Media: Hey, why are you calling us legacy media?

Techies: Well, you're the old media interests. #Newspapers, commercial #TV, maybe a bit of #radio if there's any of that left.

CLM: Uh... ya, that's us, the media.

Techies: No, you're just part of the Canadian media landscape.

CLM: ... Part of?

Techies: Yes. A small part.

CLM: But we're the media!

Techies: Oh, brother. It's gonna be *that* kind of day.

8/x

#DinosaurMedia #LinkTax #evolution

@thegibson
Have you gotten to the part where they shadowban #antiwar activists (as far back as #Syria, 2015), JulianAssange supporters, freedomSoftware advocates, blocked news in #Australia when an attempt to tax them. To be fair the #LinkTax idea was dumb, but it was the speed at which govt yeilded that said it all.

Our #legacyMedia including #ourABC were #bribed in 2021 by #facebook, yet many in power are so #morallyBankrupt here, they didn't even care to protest.

#blockCAGEMAFIA #blockMeta

Canada Was Warned: Google Begins Testing Blocking News Links in Canada

For months, Bill C-18 supporters dismissed threats to block news links as bluffs. Google is now testing blocking those news links.

The link taxes were never a law that was going to end well. Today, we are learning of a very predictable development. Goo

https://www.freezenet.ca/canada-was-warned-google-begins-testing-blocking-news-links-in-canada/

#Copyright #BillC-18 #Canada #Google #LinkTax #newslinks

MP Lisa Hepfner Faces Backlash from Journalists After Saying Platforms “Steal” News Articles

Liberal MP, Lisa Hepfner, is facing even more controversy from journalists after saying that platforms "steal" news articles.

Liberal MP, Lisa Hepfner, has become embroiled in another politica

https://www.freezenet.ca/mp-lisa-hepfner-faces-backlash-from-journalists-after-saying-platforms-steal-news-articles/

#Copyright #BillC-18 #journalism #Liberal #LinkTax #LisaHepfner #Twitter