Web We Want

"Spain’s new law (officially known as Canon AEDE), which requires websites that link to news stories first published by the Spanish newspaper association to pay a tax for that hyperlink, poses a threat to the open Web that should be challenged by ordinary Web users.  The current reforms of the Intellectual Property Law, recently approved by the chamber of deputies and pending confirmation of the Spanish Senate next September, will particularly affect sites that rely on the content produced by others in order to create value, as warned by campaigners. Furthermore, it will deeply harm the digital commons ... The reforms also include further provisions that go against the generative, collaborative Web such as: A duty to inform about Copyright violations to an administrative commission, which, without due process, could take whole sites down after 'reports' from any source. Blocking of foreign domain names and cancelling of .es domains. Demands for Internet Service Providers, aggregators and advertisement companies to disclose the identity of their users ..."