Pauper in Pune : Prince in
Paris ?
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Here
is some good news for “ Publishers “ ( - like me too ? )
On
my web site [ www.hemenparekh.in
], I publish my blogs / poems / notes / photos
etc
Of
course , these are “ free for viewing “ by
public , but I have not said that these can be “ linked
“ by search engines like Google for free !
But
when I searched Google this morning , I found following “ links “ ( Search term / No of Links ) :
· Hemen
Parekh…………………………. 17,700 ( on Yahoo > 5,250
links )
· Hemen
Parekh wiki…………………. 2,660
· Hemen
Parekh poems……………… 30,500
· Hemen
Parekh blogs………………… 10.500
· “
Hemen Parekh “……………………. 7,880
Now
, instead of “ publishing “ these in Pune , had I published in Paris
, I could be asking Google to pay me for each of these links .
$
1 /- per link is good enough for me !
And
that good news reads :
“ Article 11 is meant to give publishers
on the internet , the ability to make an extra buck by imposing a
“ link tax.”
Put simply, it’s supposed to shift some of the
massive profits away from powerful news aggregators like Facebook and
Google by allowing smaller publishers to charge them each
time the aggregators link to their sites. “
This
newly approved European Copyright Law might break the internet )
But
question arises :
For
“ reproducing “ the above excerpt from the web site of Futurism ( and linking to it ) , would I be liable to pay some amount
to Futurism ? If yes , how much ? Under which Indian law or
European law ?
May
be , as of now , no one has any clear answer to all the complications that are
bound to arise , if – and when – this European initiative gets ratified as “
Law “
But
the questions that our own Policy Makers ( Cabinet / Supreme Court / B N
Srikrishna Committee etc ) ought to be asking are :
· If
European Union can go to this length , to grant its “ Publishers “ ( remember ,
these are Organized Sector Companies ), a “ right “ to earn money from the
likes of Google , why should not India , come forward (
with appropriate law / mechanism ) to protect the “ fundamental right “ of its
“ Ordinary Citizens “ to earn some money by “ selling “ their private /
personal data to the Social Media / E Com web sites etc ?
Answer :
India must enable its
citizens to earn money from personal data
· Once
ordinary citizens voluntarily upload their private / personal data on Social
Media ( through that sham process of “ registering / I accept the terms “ ) ,
is it at all possible for the government to “
protect “ them against alleged “ misuse “ ?
Answer :
It is just impossible to
protect if people don’t have a better alternative ; and that better alternative
is …” A
Matter of Motive “
· As
required under EU’s Article 13 , are web sites capable of
“ filtering uploaded content “ , when even those very powerful “ cyber forensic
labs “ of the Governments are having a tough time deciding ,
# whether content getting
uploaded is “ copyright protected “ or not
# “ who “ uploaded such content
and “ when “
Answer :
No ,
because content is governed by “ Parekh’s Principle “ defined as follows :
Parallel to the ” Theory of Thermodynamics “ , I would
like to propound the
following , as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is
concerned :
“ Like Entropy , content keeps growing with each and every human
interaction , either with other humans or with his environment , and content
can no longer remain hidden , nor can it be destroyed “
14 Sept 2018
www.hemenparekh.in
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