To protect the web, we need to renegotiate its value.

Link: Creating a New Internet Bargain to Preserve Fair Use and Protect the Commons, by Lisa Macpherson and Anna Tumadóttir in Tech Policy PressThis should be required reading for everyone in news, but also anyone who cares about a healthy knowledge commons:Two of the most important organizations advocating for a healthy information economy, Public Knowledge and Creative Commons, have produced an important document that describes the threats and some potential solutions.I particularly appreciated their definition of what they call defensive enclosure. In a world where their content is being scraped for someone else’s profit — and robots.txt files are being ignored at least 30% of the time, while almost nobody is using AI-specific exclusion standards — publishers are more likely to hide their content away. In turn, this has created its own ecosystem of tools, many of which have the potential to also be centralized and monopolistic.As their article summarizes the problem:“The blunt tools…

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