Big Media's Liability Long Game

Cory Doctorow (in short) on how Big Media's attempts to hold Internet intermediaries strictly liable for anything that gets posted on them is very simply to remove any possibility of creators going independent, by erecting significant cost barriers to distribution and publicity.

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Liability vs. leverage – Tools of Change for Publishing
How much will your publisher pay you? There’s a short, easy answer to this: as little as they can. Not because they’re heartless monsters, but because businesses pay…

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