Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Monday 12 October 2020

If Google must pay Publishers, Why not pay Users ?

 


 

Context :

House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups 

 

Extract :

In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook needed to be checked and recommended they be restructured and that antitrust laws be reformed.

The lawmakers said the companies had abused their dominant positions, setting and often dictating prices and rules for commerce, search, advertising, social networking and publishing.

 

To amend the inequities, the lawmakers recommended restoring competition by effectively breaking up the companies, emboldening the agencies that police market concentration and throwing up hurdles for the companies to acquire start-ups

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House Panel Urges Tech Giant Breakup in Plan Republicans Shunned

Extract :

The staff report’s most consequential recommendation is for Congress to consider legislation that would prevent tech companies from owning different lines of businesses, which could lead to a mandate to break them up.

To address this, the report recommends structural separation -- prohibiting a dominant platform from operating in competition with the firms dependent on it

It also calls for line-of-business restrictions, or limiting the markets in which a dominant firm can engage, similar to bans on television networks’ entering production and syndication markets.

Under congressional power, the breakups would target types of business, rather than particular companies, committee counsel told reporters on Tuesday.

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Google must talk to French publishers about paying for their content, court says

Extract :

Google must open talks with publishers in France about paying to use their content, an appeals court confirmed on Thursday, paving the way for an industry-wide deal in the country

The ruling may reverberate outside France, as it compels Google to sit down with publishers and news agencies to find a way to remunerate them under the “neighbouring right” enshrined in revamped EU copyright rules, which allows publishers to demand a fee from online platforms for showing news snippets.

“Google’s conduct amounted to saying: I’m offering you a contract under which you give me all your rights for no remuneration,” de Silva said, with reference to the business relationship between news publishers and Alphabet’s Google.

..the French arrangement involves finding a sustainable methodology to remunerate publishers and news agencies.

The ruling confirms a decision in April by France’s competition authority, which ordered Google to negotiate with publishers and news agencies “ the remuneration due to them for any re-use of protected content ”.

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Startups plan to approach CCI against Google’s rules  { Hindustan Times / 12 Oct 2020 }

Extract :

Ø  The founders are now planning to send a written communication to both the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) as well as the CCI, this week after collating views from the industry. The startup ecosystem will send a single letter to both the government and CCI, the founder said.

Ø  Last week, Mint reported that 120 Indian startup founders were looking to form an independent non-profit lobby to take on Google in India.

Ø  In an interview on Friday, Murugavel Janakiraman, founder of Matrimony.com, said the companies are looking at “ all possibilities ”, including approaching the CCI and the government.

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MY TAKE :

Ø  GAFA are American companies governed by American Laws

Ø  It is up to the American public and US Congress-Senate to decide how to control / regulate GAFA ( including AT&T type of break-up , several decades ago ). We have absolutely “ No Say “ in that

Ø  But, we [ our Lok Sabha – Rajya Sabha ], have every right to tell them,

      “ You shall pay Indian Users for using their PERSONAL / PRIVATE DATA , which you are selling to

      advertisers and making tons of money. Either you sign up to implement the following ( for which, we are

      modifying our proposed DATA PROTECTION BILL ) , or you QUIT INDIA “

 

      Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]…………………..... [ 14 Feb 2019 ]

 

     SARAL Single  Authentic  Registration for Anywhere  Login )…[ 10 Feb 2019 ]

 

Ø  It is high time our Lawmakers muster enough courage to stand-up / speak-up for some 400 million Indian Users, whose PERSONAL DATA is being blatantly abused ( without their explicit permission ) by GAFA

 

Ø  Whereas , I have full sympathy – and support – for the cause / rights of Indian Mobile App Developers and Startups, I strongly believe that our Government focuses on the larger OWNERSHIP ISSUE of millions of Indian Users

 

Related Reading :

 

GAFA ( aka Monopoly V 2.0 ? ) ……………………………………….[ 30 Sept 2020 ]

 

A Greed-Ship named Facebook ………………………………………[ 21 Sept 2020 ]

 

Time for the Next Step ……………………………………………………[ 15 Sept 2020 ]

 

Only Answer : a Statutory Warning…………………………………[ 10 Nov 2018 ]

 

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 12 Oct 2020

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