Wednesday, January 16, 2019

NMA responds to Google's ‘Together for Copyright’


The News Media Alliance has published a response to Google’s “Together for Copyright” campaign.
The changes Google is pushing for to the European Union’s proposed Copyright Directive “would have detrimental effects on the availability of — and your access to — high-quality online news and information in Europe,” says the NMA.
“Currently online platforms such as Google and other corporate businesses can use — and make money from — publishers’ online news content every day, paying the publishers nothing,” says the NMA.
The European Parliament has voted to alter its copyright directive to make aggregator sites responsible for copyright violations, among other changes. A clause known as Article 11 would create a so-called Publishers’ Right. There is more than one version of Article 11 being looked at, according to NMA. 
The directive would need to go through several steps to become laws in the member states.

No comments:

Post a Comment

For now, we're opening this blog to Anonymous comments. This will continue as long as civility rules. Disagree as you may, just keep it clean and stay on topic. No profanity, and no name calling. We reserve the right to moderate such comments, though the person who made it may come back and reword their message in a more civil way.