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EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the protect-yourself-right-out-of-the-market dept.

suraj.sun writes with news that European publishers are also seeking ways to "protect" their content from the big bad intertubes. Their rant, termed the "Hamburg Declaration," asks the government to step in with a legislative fix. "Most of the statements in the relatively short declaration, which will surely take its place among thousands of other European declarations on intellectual property and other matters that have come out over the past few years, hinge on the idea that 'universal access to news' does not equal 'free.' In this respect, the publishers want to maintain the democratic ideal of a 'fourth estate' that provides news to an informed citizenry, while simultaneously restricting access to that news to those who can pay for it directly. What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers' favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol, the force of law."

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  1. Re:What garbage by Tom+Smith · · Score: 1, Troll

    millions needlessly dead, war over large parts of the planet, mass alienation and destabilisation, worldwide economic collapse...

    i don't think any politician at all is "good", but you'll have to get up pretty early each morning and put in some very long hours to be actually WORSE than bush...

  2. Re:What garbage by Tom+Smith · · Score: 1, Troll

    Multi-trillion dollar deficits

    inherited from the previous administration, nothing to do with obama...

    pardoning the telecos for helping in illegally wiretap citizens.

    entirely ordered and operated by the previous administration. condemned, ceased and genuine efforts made to find the best way to put it into the past with the least damage. original controversy nothing to do with obama...

    so let me get this straight... your entire criticism is based around blaming every single thing on bush, then saying:

    continued flushing of money down the toilet on bailouts to shitty companies

    which may or may not be a good idea, but is 100% entirely, confessed by you, obama's best efforts to clean up the mess that bush left america in...

    i am waiting for the part where you show obama to be worse...