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Sounds like a link tax, not actually reproducing any written content. I really dislike link taxes, they're gonna break the internet at some point if they don't see pushback.
If the code automatically shows the article or summarizes it without clicking on the link, then yeah, that's infringement. It should only show the title and the link imo.
Except the summary is almost always literally the content the sites ask the sites linking them to show.
They have "please show this preview instead of a boring plain link" code.
This. They even provide the cover image to use. If they don't want embedding they could just block the request.
But they don't want to. They want to sell the cake and eat it too.
Or they want to sell the cake and get paid for it.
More like: They want to sell the cake and be paid when you recommend it to others.
Mind that news media don't pay when they link to social media, quote people, or even report what other media has reported. The real question is, if this law has any beneficial effect for society. I don't see how.
That's exactly what (maybe) violates the law.
You think people should pay X to link to tweets? Or generally for quotes?
No, I'm not saying anything about 'should'.
It's about a lawsuit here, and I have told that this may be what has violated the law.
The court will tell you for sure, in the end.
Misunderstanding. The news media is suing X. I pointed out what news media does without paying.
That's infringement in Europe, which makes it effectively a link tax.
Yeah, it's the same thing that lets us have a site like lemmy
Huh? How you mean?
Oh, he's saying that snippet view lets us have sites like lemmy. I didn't get how cracking down on that would help lemmy.
Now when I open a Google map link my wife sent from messenger, messenger opens a copy of maps inside messenger that doesn't work half the time. Is that excluded from link tax?
When musks puts unskippable ads to go to content instead of reading it almost in its entirety right on the site (with an ad besides it), is that also link tax?
Enshitification of links is what will break the internet. Musk would be the first to sue for this.
I'm in Canada, and I sent a cbc.ca news link to someone in instagram chat. It showed a preview of the post with a picture and summary, but when the link was clicked it went to a page that said:
These previews are almost always specified by the website themself, using the OpenGraph protocol. The website is literally asking other services to "use this for the preview's image, and this block of text for the description, please!"