A new licensing program to support the news industry
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Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#2Will these news publishers also get "demonetized" when they report on something Google doesn't like? I'm not sure I like Google having this much power over (smaller) news organizations.
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#3> ... these events are happening at a time when the news industry is also being challenged financially
Yeah, and what's challenging to the "news industry" is the monopolistic situation on the web and the utter lack of action on the part of US antitrust authorities and their allies. I find it very worrying that Der Spiegel, once the most frequently visited ad-supported news sites in the "old" German web, sees no other hope than partnering with Google. Sorry if I'm being too harsh, but the problem can't be solved by Google, when the problem is Google. Der Spiegel once more showing they completely outsold their journalistic punch and demonstrating basic media incompetence (which is the very last thing you want a credible publisher to do).
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#4I know this is still a very rough idea, but I truly believe the future of content monetization is having some kind of decentralized or even federated payment system and digital wallet that's provider-agnostic and allows people to do "micro-donations", whether it's through upvotes, claps, time spent on the page, or a combination of all of those and more.
If this depends on Google, or Paypal, or Apple, and you can only donate to a site if you have PayPal, or if you have Google Pay, or whatever, it will never reach its true potential.
It should be kind of like email, where everyone has email. Once everyone has an "email-like" digital wallet, and all of these websites accept "email-like money" through micro-donations, I think content monetization would work much better.
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#5>To start, we have signed partnerships with local and national publications in Germany, Australia and Brazil
Australia was/is gearing up to force Google to pay. Was anything similar brewing in Germany or Brazil?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/making-facebook-and-...
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#6It seems Google is feeling a hot breath in the back of the neck since news and publishing orgs were lobbying for draconian interpretations/implementations of the Copyright Directive (which probably would be judicially questionable, still)
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#7When news sources are receiving money from Google there remains only one news source: Google.
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#8>To start, we have signed partnerships with local and national publications in Germany, Australia and Brazil Australia was/is gearing up to force Google to pay. Was anything similar brewing in Germany or Brazil? https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/making-facebook-and-...
Yes, Leistungsschutzrecht (ancillary copyright for press publishers).
They tried to force Google (and others) to pay, but instead of paying, Google asked "give us permission to use your content or we'll have to delist you", and many obliged, while other aggregators suffered.
I believe in Spain Google News just outright shut down.
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#9> ... these events are happening at a time when the news industry is also being challenged financially Yeah, and what's challenging to the "news industry" is the monopolistic situation on the web and the utter lack of action on the part of US antitrust authorities and their allies. I find it very worrying that Der Spiegel , once the most frequently visited ad-supported news sites in the "old" German web, sees no othe…
Actions like these start making a lot of sense if you start viewing Google and their friends as a bunch of hi-tech mafioso. Newspapers are essentially forced to pay protection money and then publicly kiss the ring, declare their allegiance and pray that the deal is not altered further.
Re: A new licensing program to support the news industry
#10I know this is still a very rough idea, but I truly believe the future of content monetization is having some kind of decentralized or even federated payment system and digital wallet that's provider-agnostic and allows people to do "micro-donations", whether it's through upvotes, claps, time spent on the page, or a combination of all of those and more. If this depends on Google, or Paypal, or Apple, and you can only…
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