On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 6:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
We just won a major victory in our battle to keep the internet free [...] Our established positions are against corporate interests.
When the Guardian reported[1] on the recent European copyright campaign, as supported by Wikimedia projects, their spin was that it served the corporate interests of Facebook, Google and YouTube:
"Google, YouTube and Facebook https://www.theguardian.com/technology/facebook could escape having to make billions in payouts to press publishers, record labels and artists after EU lawmakers voted to reject proposed changes to copyright rules that aimed to make the tech companies share more of their revenues."
The Guardian – a paper that has traditionally been a staunch supporter of Wikimedia, and had Jimmy Wales on its board until last year – added,
"More than 1.3 billion users of Google-owned YouTube https://www.theguardian.com/technology/youtube regularly watch music videos, making it the biggest music service in the world. However, artists receive only 67 cents per user annually in royalties."
I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
A.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/youtube-could-escape-bill...