Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

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https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Speaking of unprincipled media laws that produce totally predictable unintended consequences ...

Duncan and guest Tim Burrowes (ABC MediaLand) also discuss the fate of the Oz government's attempts to impose a link tax on DataFarmers. Which went wrong in all the ways tech activists warned about, and more;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on

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#TechRegulation #LinkTax #DigitalAdTax #TimBurrowes

Schon das #Uploadfilter und #Leistungsschutzrecht #Linktax Debakel hat dem eh schwachen europäischen Digitalstandort schweren Schaden zugefügt... die #Chatkontrolle würde ihm wahrscheinlich den Rest geben.

#ChatkontrolleStoppen

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-in-der-kritik-wirtschaftsverbaende-bitkom-und-eco-klar-gegen-chatkontrolle/

@titaniumbiscuit @SchreibeEinfach

#Uploadfilter wurden eingeführt mit vielen der negativen Effekte von denen die Leute mit Ahnung vorab intensiv gewarnt hatten.

Übrigens hat #YouTube - wohl wissend das die neuen Haftungsregeln jeglicher kleineren europäischen Konkurrenz schwer zu schaffen machen werden - kurz nach der Entscheidung die Zwangswerbung + Anreiz zum Abo massiv ausgebaut und damit seine Einnahmen nocheinmal deutlich gesteigert. Bei gleichzeitiger Verschlechterung der Nutzererfahrung.. aber die haben ja kaum noch eine Wahl, den nur die größten aller Plattformen können diese idiotischen Haftungsregeln ohne größere Probleme stemmen.

Das #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax hat auch - wie vorhergesagt - nicht wirklich funktioniert, da es von völlig falschen Voraussetzungen ausgeht.

Alles in allem war die Reform für Nutzer schlecht, für viele Urheber schlecht, für den Wirtschaftstandort schlecht aber sie war gut für ein paar große Verwertungsgesellschaften und Digitalkonzerne.

EPIC FAIL😒

Mark Carney Mulling Rescinding the Online News Act

The Online News Act has been widely considered a complete and total failure. It seems rescinding it is a possibility.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mark-carney-mulling-rescinding-the-online-news-act/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #LinkTax #MarkCarney #OnlineNewsAct #US

@pneutig

Wir alle wünschen uns mehr europäische Digitalunternehmen... aber zur Wahrheit gehört auch, dass unsere Politik seit Jahren alles falsch macht, was man falsch machen kann. Von #Uploadfiltern über #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax zur #Chatkontrolle und #Vorratsdatenspeicherung .

Nie geht es um die Interessen der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer... sondern immer um die Interessen anderer.

So wird das nix.

Eine Altersbeschränkung für das Internet ist weder sinnvoll noch mit Freiheitsrechten zu vereinbaren. Es obliegt den Erziehungsberechtigten dafür Sorge zu tragen.

Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped

I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.

https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Kelowna #Liberal #LinkTax #MP #OnlineNewsAct #StephenFuhr

@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. 🫣

But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.

I don't think most...

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”. The campaign Web site explained:

Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI models.

Publishers and creators say that doing […]

#creators #dailies #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #journalists #linkTax #newspapers #optOut #publishers #ratchet #snippetTax #sustainability #tax #theft #training #uk

https://walledculture.org/yes-lets-make-it-fair-by-recognising-that-copyright-has-failed-to-reward-creators-properly/

@stroughtonsmith

PS: As a IT guy, you should also understand, that actually cutting off an internet service that has millions of users that WANT to access it, it going to be very difficult.

Even more so, as few credible european alternatives exist, a fact not helped by europe caring more about legacy media companies than user rights which would be one of its few selling points. (Just remember the #uploadfilter and #linktax debacle.)

Europe dont see users as people having rights... it sees users as something that should be milked without rights from european companies instead of US ones. 😒

The #EuropeanUnion and the goverments of the member states have done very little in the last 2 decades that benefits me as an internet user but have done lot of things that violate my interests in multiple ways.

So I trust them even less than just the - wise - distrust anyone should have about even a democratically elected goverment.

@AssociatedPress @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress

The very idea of a #linktax /publishers right is incredible stupid and unjustified.

Digital platforms are perfectly right to deny legacy media paymemt for something that legacy media benefits from far more than the other way arround.

The internet does not need legacy media, but legacy media needs the internet. With this basic fact out of the way, it is painfully obvious who should pay whom - if at all.

We made a similar mistake in Europe with the idiotic copyright reform of 2019. It achieved absolutly nothing besides making life more miserable for every european internet user and further reducing the already weak european digital economy.

European search engines - that cannot afford years of litigation from greedy legacy media - now pay for news while Google - who can afford any law suit while legacy media cannot afford to be not listed on google - does not.

The idea is idiotic and should be trashed.

@Witteg @tagesschau

Und das ist - neben der zweifelhaften grundsätzlichen Sinnhaftigkeit - auch einer der Gründe warum ich alles derartige strikt ablehne. Denn einmal eingeführt, ist der Weg zu einer Ausweispflicht für alle nur noch sehr kurz. Du musst beweisen dass du Ü16 bist..... bei der Gelegenheit protokollieren wir gleichnochmal alle Daten die wir jetzt eh schon haben. Für später..... irgendeinen Nutzen finden wir schon.... und sei es der Verkauf an den Höchstbietenden.

Zwar mag so eine #Klarnamenpflicht manchen attraktiv erschienen, macht sie es doch - theoretisch - einfacher Hassposter zu identifizieren, allerdings ist der Preis dafür durchaus hoch.... auch viele vernünftige Stimmen würden damit verstimmen.

Australians "Springer Konzern" die Murdoch Medien Gruppe hat übrigens ähnlich wie für den #LinkTax auch hier massiv für das Gesetz lobbyiert. Hautpsächlich weil man sich damit über Umwege mehr Epressungsmaterial gegenüber BigTech und natürlich auch einen Gewinn an eigener Reichweite erhofft.

Genauso wie bei #Uploadfiltern und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax werden #niemehrcdu und #NieMehrSPD natürlich auch hier schon bald wieder eine Entscheidung gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und gegen die Interessen der Bevölkerung treffen.

https://www.golem.de/news/zpue-vs-clouddienstleister-gerichtliches-nein-zur-privatkopie-abgabe-2410-189942.html

Freut Euch schon mal darauf, für Eure Urlaubsfotos in der Cloud Abgaben zahlen zu müssen.

Ieri sera mi è capitato di sentire in radio Gasparri sostenere la #LinkTax quale garanzia dell'indipendenza dell'informazione. Val la pena ricordare perché è una pessima idea.

"Saving the News From Big Tech" ➡️ https://mastodon.cisti.org/@roughconsensusandrunningcode/110390636700711895

Mainstream Media Calls on Meta to Give Them Free Money

Following the CRTC approval of Google's Online News Act Exemption, the mainstream media demanded Meta to do the same thing.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-calls-on-meta-to-give-them-free-money/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #CRTC #Facebook #Google #LinkTax #Media #Meta #OnlineNewsAct

Seemingly taking notes from Canada and Australia, New Zealand is currently considering its own flawed #LinkTax. The basis of this bill (and other link taxes) is rooted in the false belief that digital services pull revenue away from news sites by linking to them and then sending them traffic. https://buff.ly/3A78kJj

@jmaris The individual author or publisher has near-zero bargaining power, no matter how important they are culturally, because their individual presence makes zero difference to Facebook's profits. Entire genres and sectors can be removed with zero effect on Facebook's bottom line, as shown by the #LinkTax fights.

Only collective action by all authors together would change this, but a global union doesn't seem likely. I suggest a compulsory license/income tax to fund education and libraries.

@lobbyctrl_tech

While I am all for more european sovereignty, I honestly have major doubts that a european actor would serve my interests as a user better than big tech.

Europes track record regarding user rights is mostly dissapointing. European politicians have made my digital life only worse in the last 20 years with #Uploadfilters, #LinkTax, forcing legay copyright rules onto the digital age and cannot be trusted with protecting users rights and privacy at all.

I have no interest in any european digital company gaining any significant market share, until it proves beyond doubt that it can be trusted more with my rights as a user than american big tech. Which to date, it has not.

I want the freedom to choose the digital companies that serve me and I will not tolerate buying/using a worse product, just because it is made in Europe.

The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/
It does not seem that the right to appropriate share is currently making a substantial difference to the journalists and their incomes. #LinkTax #Copyright

Juicy licensing deals with AI companies show that publishers don’t really care about creators

One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves confronted with deep-pocketed companies – both established ones like Google and Microsoft, […]

#academicPublishers #authors #creators #genai #generativeAi #google #licensing #linkTax #microsoft #newspaperPublishers #openai #publishers #taylorFrancis #training #wiley

https://walledculture.org/juicy-licensing-deals-with-ai-companies-show-that-publishers-dont-really-care-about-creators/