Part of the issue is that Facebook and Instagram can show news stories without linking out to them, so users don’t get the opportunity to see the news companies’ ads or to sign up for a subscription.
What I can imagine is a fair and equitable ecology of media sharing. While some commercial producers - as well and indie ones - would offer their content for free linking (perhaps with a daily/weekly quota), others may work out mass licensing deals with the platform owner. , Even many more others may work out, individualized compensation agreements that fall somewhere in between.
So, FB would pay an annual licensing fee to all of the content producers whose content it profits from.
FB is already built on hundreds of more complex systems that the one required for tracking license payment obligations.
What about search engines? These provide links as well.
And what about this link from OP, should Lemmy world have to pay for OP posting a link to this news article.
Could you imagine if a telephone book had to pay you or your business to list your business phone number.
Google does pay Canadian news companies to show their content.
Part of the issue is that Facebook and Instagram can show news stories without linking out to them, so users don’t get the opportunity to see the news companies’ ads or to sign up for a subscription.
What I can imagine is a fair and equitable ecology of media sharing. While some commercial producers - as well and indie ones - would offer their content for free linking (perhaps with a daily/weekly quota), others may work out mass licensing deals with the platform owner. , Even many more others may work out, individualized compensation agreements that fall somewhere in between.
So, FB would pay an annual licensing fee to all of the content producers whose content it profits from.
FB is already built on hundreds of more complex systems that the one required for tracking license payment obligations.