You have this entirely backwards. Google hoovering up everyone's content to sell ads on it with NO payment to content creators was the original sin. This is a step towards correcting that. They should only pay when the content is returned from their engine and ads sold that go with it. So I don't know the exact wording of the legislation so I can't comment on that.
It shouldn't be limited to companies where people already make money. It should be a new global standard that if you include other's content and then monetize it via advertising, you don't only site them, you pay them.
The facebook argument that they are providing eyeballs is disingenuous. There are people that find content with an index and sharing and other content that is buried because of it. The fact is they took the power from the creators that used to be theirs. Recommendation and discovery. A power which creators could provide still with new tech. Google and facebook just got out in front of them and stole thier content to aggregate it and win.
You have this entirely backwards. Google hoovering up everyone's content to sell ads on it with NO payment to content creators was the original sin. This is a step towards correcting that. They should only pay when the content is returned from their engine and ads sold that go with it. So I don't know the exact wording of the legislation so I can't comment on that.
It shouldn't be limited to companies where people already make money. It should be a new global standard that if you include other's content and then monetize it via advertising, you don't only site them, you pay them.
The facebook argument that they are providing eyeballs is disingenuous. There are people that find content with an index and sharing and other content that is buried because of it. The fact is they took the power from the creators that used to be theirs. Recommendation and discovery. A power which creators could provide still with new tech. Google and facebook just got out in front of them and stole thier content to aggregate it and win.