It Sure Sounds Like Elizabeth Warren Wants To Bring The EU Copyright Directive Stateside

It Sure Sounds Like Elizabeth Warren Wants To Bring The EU Copyright Directive Stateside

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Last week we wrote a critical analysis of Elizabeth Warren's big plan to break up "big tech." As we noted, there was a lot in the plan that was nonsensical, unsupported by the facts or just plain confused. We'll be talking more about some of these ideas a lot over the next few years I imagine (stay tuned), but there was one line in Warren's plan that deserved a separate post: it appears that a part of Warren's big attack on big tech... is to give a massive handout to Hollywood. Here's the line:

We must help America’s content creators — from local newspapers and national magazines to comedians and musicians — keep more of the value their content generates, rather than seeing it scooped up by companies like Google and Facebook.

It Sure Sounds Like Elizabeth Warren Wants To Bring The EU Copyright Directive Stateside

Mar 11, 2019, 5:15pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190308/17593441768/it-sure-sounds-like-elizabeth-warren-wants-to-bring-eu-copyright-directive-stateside.shtml > Last week we wrote a critical analysis of Elizabeth Warren's big plan to break up "big tech." As we noted, there was a lot in the plan that was nonsensical, unsupported by the facts or just plain confused. We'll be talking more about some of these ideas a lot over the next few years I imagine (stay tuned), but there was one line in Warren's plan that deserved a separate post: it appears that a part of Warren's big attack on big tech... is to give a massive handout to Hollywood. Here's the line: > We must help America’s content creators — from local newspapers and national magazines to comedians and musicians — keep more of the value their content generates, rather than seeing it scooped up by companies like Google and Facebook.