Google faces a lot of attacks from publishers to pay money for their supposedly non-authorized reuse of information.
There is a intellectual honesty that needs to be re-established around this "copyright" question.
When a company publishes something, it's means to give (or sell) it to the public. Can the public reuse that information once they access it ? Yes : they can at least talk about it. Now : what's the difference if Google takes it and talks about it on the web by indexing it and making it searchable ? If this information is not meant to be reused for free than why is it published and exposed without any serious protection ?
This makes me think about the fishermen's crisis in France. The fishermen's real problem is not the oil price : it's the fact that their real cost of fish is not reflected in their prices. They sell at loss.
Similarly if publishers have to claim money to Google it's because they just dumped their content on the web instead of finding ways to get something out of it from the start.
Claiming money to Google shows the weakness of those companies' business models which are outdated.
Links :
There is a intellectual honesty that needs to be re-established around this "copyright" question.
When a company publishes something, it's means to give (or sell) it to the public. Can the public reuse that information once they access it ? Yes : they can at least talk about it. Now : what's the difference if Google takes it and talks about it on the web by indexing it and making it searchable ? If this information is not meant to be reused for free than why is it published and exposed without any serious protection ?
This makes me think about the fishermen's crisis in France. The fishermen's real problem is not the oil price : it's the fact that their real cost of fish is not reflected in their prices. They sell at loss.
Similarly if publishers have to claim money to Google it's because they just dumped their content on the web instead of finding ways to get something out of it from the start.
Claiming money to Google shows the weakness of those companies' business models which are outdated.
Links :
- Copiepresse réclame jusqu'à 49 millions d'euros à Google - Data News
- Report: Belgian publishers demand up to $77 million from Google | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
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