Google made €50 million copyright offer, French publishers want €100 million

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It's almost as stupid as the recent new wave of rules the French government wants to impose taxes on Facebook, Google and other big social media companies for invasion of privacy. Honestly, I think these websites should either block french users or start subscriptions for users in this specific country. Even with the high rate of taxes in France, the french government is still greedy to get a slice of everything!

You always ask for more in bargaining. Google's going to lowball what the value is to them - if they're smart that is, and I think that can be assumed ...

in Germany we have the same blank_medium tax (GEMA) as mentioned and the GEMA still haggles about more money from google/youtube.

This is going on for years now thus that we can't watch many videos if they have copyright relevant music tracks in it, which is surprisingly often the case.

The GEMA now even wants to raise excessivly the amount club owners have to pay. Their and the music indrustry lobby became way to strong in the past years.

I'm french and I still don't understand why google should pay them, but meh ...

This reminds me (I'm in Canada) of the tax that we have on blank media, like CDs. Anyone who purchases the blank media (doesn't matter why they bought it) is made to pay this tax, which is then distributed to whoever is deemed worthy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

We have the same in Sweden, and the tax is on all storage media (HDDs, DVDs, USB-sticks etc)

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