Legacy News Orgs’ Hatred Of Google Runs So Deep They’re Willing To Give Up Fair Use To Punish Google – Techdirt

from the failing-at-innovating dept

We’ve been writing a bit about the JCPA — the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act — the very bad bill from Senator Amy Klobuchar that would create all sorts of problems, from allowing news orgs to demand money for links (breaking the fundamental nature of how the web works), to creating a “must carry” provision that could force disinformation providers into Google News, to an underhanded method of trying to revamp copyright law, without ever admitting its revamping copyright law. We’ve explained all of these problems in previous posts.

Of course, the bill’s momentum was paused last week when Senator Ted Cruz used it as an opportunity to try to force in a “no moderation” rule, though apparently, if Klobuchar can cut a deal with others, it will return to markup tomorrow.

Either way, the main group lobbying for the bill, the News Media Alliance, the organization formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America (which has long been a…

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