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suraj.sun writes "European publishers want a law to control online news access
A group of European publishers has signed a declaration that aims to see its draconian Automated Content Access Protocol forced on search engines and news aggregators by legislation.
A group of European publishers has recently released a declaration of principles, the "Hamburg Declaration," that amounts to a long-winded rant against the Internet for stealing their news. They want the government to step in and fix the situation by force of law.
Most of the statements in the relatively short declaration ( http://www.epceurope.org/presscentre/archive/International_publishers_demand_new_intellectual_property_rights.shtml ), which will surely take its place among thousands of other European declarations on intellectual property and other matters that have come out over the past few years, hinge on the idea that "universal access to news" does not equal "free." In this respect, the publishers want to maintain the democratic ideal of a "fourth estate" that provides news to an informed citizenry, while simultaneously restricting access to that news to those who can pay for it directly.
What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers' favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol ( http://www.the-acap.org/ ), the force of law.
ARS Technica : http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/07/european-publishers-want-news-access-controls-legislated.ars"
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A group of European publishers has signed a declaration that aims to see its draconian Automated Content Access Protocol forced on search engines and news aggregators by legislation.
A group of European publishers has recently released a declaration of principles, the "Hamburg Declaration," that amounts to a long-winded rant against the Internet for stealing their news. They want the government to step in and fix the situation by force of law.
Most of the statements in the relatively short declaration ( http://www.epceurope.org/presscentre/archive/International_publishers_demand_new_intellectual_property_rights.shtml ), which will surely take its place among thousands of other European declarations on intellectual property and other matters that have come out over the past few years, hinge on the idea that "universal access to news" does not equal "free." In this respect, the publishers want to maintain the democratic ideal of a "fourth estate" that provides news to an informed citizenry, while simultaneously restricting access to that news to those who can pay for it directly.
What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers' favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol ( http://www.the-acap.org/ ), the force of law.
ARS Technica : http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/07/european-publishers-want-news-access-controls-legislated.ars"
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