interesting
is like a football match
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, at 2:27 PM, nacho via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
>> not a big fan of copyright myself but neither a fan of big tech companies
>> lobbying
>>
>> interesting article here of google vs article 13
>>
>> https://www.ukmusic.org/news/uk-music-chief-slams-google-as-corporate-vultures-as-figures-show-googles-3
>
> Disclosure: I work for a US-based copyright reform organization. This is my
> personal opinion though.
>
> "UK Music is an industry-funded body" :thinking-face-emoji: .
>
> The amount stated by UK Music covers all of Google's lobbying activities in
> the EU rather than just on this issue.
>
> Companies the size of Google can comply with legislation like this no
> problem, it is smaller European web sites and startups that the legislation
> would push out of the market.
>
> People were fighting this fight before Google existed, and if necessary they
> will be fighting it after Google are gone.
>
> Andreas/Technollama explains this better than I could:
>
> "As a veteran of the Copyright Wars, I have to admit that it has been very
> entertaining reading the reaction from the copyright industry lobby groups
> and their individual representatives, some almost going apoplectic with rage
> at Google’s intervention. These tend to be the same people who spent decades
> lobbying legislators to get their way unopposed, representing large corporate
> interests unashamedly and passing laws that would benefit only a few, usually
> to the detriment of users. It seems like lobbying must be decried when you
> lose."
>
> https://www.technollama.co.uk/what-can-the-copyright-directive-vote-tell-us-about-the-state-of-digital-rights
>
> - Rob.
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