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Did you actually read what the document said, or did you just do a search for the word "tax"? The compulsory license idea was not a proposal of the commission
by hristov 16y ago
Did you actually read what the document said, or did you just do a search for the word "tax"?
The compulsory license idea was not a proposal of the commission but a proposal of "one workshop participant." The commission's report just mentions as something that was mentioned in the round table discussions and then mostly criticises it. That is very far from the title of "FTC mulls taxing news agregators". Also the compulsory license would not be applied to news agregators but directly to ISPs.
- roboneal 16y agoDespite all the disclaimer's that this is some sort of loose collection of "ideas" -- the beginning of the report contains about 4 pages of FTC "staff’s key observations and conclusions to date". Reading that is makes it clear to me that the current FTC regime wants to bail out newspapers and traditional media by erecting costs & barriers to new media and citizen journalism.