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This is indeed a landmark decision and I hope it will snowball into what it should really become: Google sharing revenue with all sites that it takes content fr
by freediver 7y ago
This is indeed a landmark decision and I hope it will snowball into what it should really become: Google sharing revenue with all sites that it takes content from (hello Wikipedia and every blogger out there) not just media sites. Otherwise this measure is strongly biased in an unproductive way.
- dehrmann 7y ago> Wikipedia Most Wikipedia content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, so, by intent, Google's free to use it as long as there's attribution. I'm not sure what would happen if a law forced Wikimedia to take money for something it's intentionally giving away.
- freediver 7y agoThe fact that they give it away, should not prevent/stop the receiving party to pay a fair share for it, if they extract value from it (and in Google's case monetize it). Also I am giving away my comment here, but I am sure happy if someone upvotes it (although that is not implicit in the transaction).
- 0xy 7y agoDo you think Google is more likely to share revenue, or to cut off those content snippets and shutdown Google News? Publishers will not get a cent, nor should they (they don't block Google by choice).