Original Reddit post

The European Court of Justice’s recent ruling upholding Italy’s requirement that Meta negotiate compensation with publishers may, at first glance, appear to concern journalism alone — besides a tremendous victory — but for the publishing industry, the significance of the decision extends far beyond newspapers. Together with recent US rulings on AI training and copyrighted books where a federal judge actually ruled that tech companies worth billions can claim fair use over copyrighted books, it reveals something much larger: Europe and the United States are rapidly diverging on the fundamental question of whether tech platforms can freely extract value from other industries without meaningful negotiation or compensation. The big question here is: what should prevail, the interests of big tech to increase profit or those of the entire society to have access to knowledge (and means of producing it)? submitted by /u/Tsavkko

Originally posted by u/Tsavkko on r/ArtificialInteligence