But do we really want to be crafting a maze of one-off rules for every company just because each of them have something special that we don't want to pay them f

But do we really want to be crafting a maze of one-off rules for every company just because each of them have something special that we don't want to pay them for? I don't know, and won't pretend to know. Again, it all comes down to the merits. One might very well make the case that companies should be compensated for providing data in some cases. I was objecting solely to the "business rights" aspect some people were bringing up (and which comes up continuously in discussions about regulation and business ethics generally, here) -- which we seem to be roughly on the same page on.