Saving the news from Big Tech – EUobserver

As Big Tech arose, the news declined. It’s not controversial to assume that these two facts are related, but there is no consensus on how the decline of the news industry is related to concentration in the tech sector, let alone how policymakers intervene in the relationship between news and tech.

Broadly, critics of tech’s relationship to news fall into two camps. First, there are those who argue that tech is misappropriating the news, say, by indexing news stories inside of search engines, or by providing online forums where the public links to, quotes and discusses the news. This formulation suggests a simple answer: just create a new copyright in links to news stories and in the reproduction of headlines and quotations, and charge tech platforms license fees for access to the news.

This neatly encapsulates H.L. Mencken’s idea that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

A new right to authorise references to the news, and quotations of…

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