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 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.