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$5 ISP tax to fund online journalism? - 6/7/2010 3:43:22 PM   
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amending the copyright laws to create a content license fee (perhaps $5.00 to $7.00) to be paid by every Internet Service Provider on each account it provides. He suggests creating a new division of the Copyright Office, which would operate under streamlined procedures and would collect and distribute these fees. Copyright owners who elect to participate would agree to periodically submit records of their digitized download records to the Copyright Office. The Copyright Office could verify these records by commissioning market-by-market sampling by organizations like Nielsen, ARB, and Comscore. He suggests these fees could provide a financial floor that allows publishers to leverage additional income, and would encourage, not discourage, the operation of market forces, and stimulate experimentation and innovation.









Federalize "hot news" law. Copyright does not give news organizations any right over facts about the world, only over the specific words used to describe those facts. But because it is so easy to “free ride” on the expensive work of real journalism by sitting in a cubicle somewhere and rewriting other people's work, some states have passed "hot news" laws that give journalists a quasi-property right over their stories for a short amount of time. One proposal would recreate this at the national level. In the current media landscape, however, this would create huge problems. Though the big players who are most likely to complain about hot news misappropriation like to play the victim (and some truly are victims), we live in a world in which major stories are routinely unearthed by bloggers and citizens and small newspapers and big players. Everyone shares, everyone copies. As the FTC noted, "News organizations and writers, including print, broadcast, op-ed writers, and other commentators, routinely borrow from each other. One panelist suggested that '[m]uch of what is done by newspapers with each other is actually problematic under existing hot news doctrine.'"/snip
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/worlds-stupidest-ideas-for-saving-journalism-in-the-internet-age.ars
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RE: $5 ISP tax to fund online journalism? - 6/7/2010 5:11:42 PM   
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While this may hold as much water as the "tax emails" issue, there is a real problem in the industry. On TV and in print, sooner or later the reporters get paid however indirectly, by the ads.

There has been some talk about how to get these reporters paid as the news media segues into the internet. In fact I think TV and internet are going to be very closely related in a short time, with people downloading movies and all that. New TVs already accept DVI inputs from most computers, and I even have this little $50 box that converts the VGA signal for older TVs.

But there should be some sort of system by which public opinion can be guaged, so those who use it pay for it. The internet offers better possibilities for that than the Nielson ratings. But the plan is not yet in place. Even if we paid a flat rate though, the disbursion of the funds could be determined by the number of hits. But how would they get those who use it to pay for it ? Not quite as easy as cable TV, where you order the packages of channels you want and can order PPV movies and events.

While it hasn't been quite figured out completely, it will be. You just can't send people all over the world to gather information for free, even if you didn't have to pay them. But then how would they make a living ? These are real problems, and this is nothing like the email tax. If mail delivery is reduced due to emails, the post office can simply scale back. Up until recently the post office was the only part of the government that actually made money. From what I hear that has changed. Did email cause it ? Maybe in part, but there is still that need, because if I order a Ronco home lobotomy kit email simply will not get it here. On the other hand, letter delivery probably has a better profit margin than packages.

Everything will fall into place in a few years I think. The players will probably not change but their roles will. This because if you order a Popeil Pocket Penis Pleaser, it has to go on a truck somewhere. It has to happen, it is just a matter of how and when.

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RE: $5 ISP tax to fund online journalism? - 6/7/2010 5:45:41 PM   
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No.  Bleeping. Way.

I'm not happy that we have the National Endowment for the Arts deciding which artists are worthy of getting funding, taken from taxpayers who have no say in the matter.  I sure don't want journalists paid for existing, not whether their audience appreciates them.

And I sure as hell do not want journalists, which are now independent, to get funded by the government.  That's a slippery slope that results in state-run media.


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RE: $5 ISP tax to fund online journalism? - 6/7/2010 6:07:20 PM   
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Amazing how they think they own it all.

Even the news- which much of it is talking points of the White house.

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RE: $5 ISP tax to fund online journalism? - 6/7/2010 7:06:09 PM   
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I'm thinking it's an urban legend, since similar schemes, all for $5, were floated back around 2008 (like 5 bucks for unlimited music downloads, etc.)

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RE: $5 ISP tax to fund online journalism? - 6/7/2010 7:21:17 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: thornhappy

I'm thinking it's an urban legend, since similar schemes, all for $5, were floated back around 2008 (like 5 bucks for unlimited music downloads, etc.)


3% tax on ISP, cell phones, etc

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