The news agency announced the legal action in a statement. It said it is seeking payment under European Union intellectual property rules that cover “neighboring rights,” which allow news outlets and publishers to seek payment from digital platforms for the sharing of their work.
Much as I enjoy seeing bad things happen to Elon Musk, I don’t think this will have good future results if AFP wins. What will it say for Lemmy itself when we quote articles and don’t pay for them?
Well, it does see value of revenue generated by sharing. Lemmy is not for profit and has no advertising.
Much as the (legal) world wasn’t ready for “socal media” (which in this context actually means “web content aggregators”), the law in turn will not be ready for anything federated. They’ll try to apply the same “social media” rules to services that are decentralized, and those rules won’t really fit, and we’ll go through all this rigamarole again… in like 10 years.