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I don't find it too absurd if you consider that many older people go to Facebook to read the news. And by now, the young crowd is moving on, which means those o
by fxtentacle 6y ago
I don't find it too absurd if you consider that many older people go to Facebook to read the news. And by now, the young crowd is moving on, which means those older people are Facebooks main user base.
- missedthecue 6y agoSo a company getting outcompeted wants the government to force its competiton to give it free money. And you don't think that's absurd?
- asdfaoeu 6y agoCountries protect their domestic companies all the time.
- Mirioron 6y agoSure, but you generally don't want to be blatant about it. If the US decides to start swinging its weight around to protect Google/Facebook from this (or as retaliation) then Australia is most definitely going to come out on the losing side.
- lenkite 6y agoThis is happening in the US too. Google/Facebook should pay for the news they use: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/shoptalk-google-facebook-should-pay-for-news-they-use/ https://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/shoptalk-google-f...
- fxtentacle 6y agoYou mean how the DMCA grants US companies legal immunity for most copyright infringements if the content is posted by an "unrelated" user account instead of the official company account? FYI I work on catching image thieves in the US and we sadly see lots of cases where you feel that it should clearly be illegal that a company is using someone else's photo without permission, but oddly enough it turns out to be not legally pursuable.
- lenkite 6y agoIf they are re-publishing content created by news publishers on their platform, they can pay money for this. If they do not want to pay the price, they can simply stop showing news. People will go back to the original platform.
- fxtentacle 6y agoThese newspapers aren't getting outcompeted. They are having their content stolen. If Facebook would prevent people from posting links from these newspapers and instead show an error message that says that it isn't allowed because Facebook doesn't want to pay for it, how do you think people would react?
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- twblalock 6y agoHow is posting a link considered stealing content?
- sjy 6y agoSome say that copyright infringement is stealing, and some say that the decline of the news media could be reversed by extending copyright to prohibit the unauthorised posting of links to, or snippets of, news content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...
- twblalock 6y agoPosting a link is not copyright infringement.
- fxtentacle 6y agoThe link is not the problem. The headline, text snippet, and image used in the box to illustrate the link, they are. Because let's be honest, most people only look at the image and read the headline. So for them, the preview on facebook is "good enough".