Several leading French newspapers said Tuesday that they are suing social media platform X, accusing it of running their content without payment.
  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
    233·
    11 days ago

    If the code automatically shows the article or summarizes it without clicking on the link, then yeah, that’s infringement. It should only show the title and the link imo.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      11 days ago

      Except the summary is almost always literally the content the sites ask the sites linking them to show.

      They have “please show this preview instead of a boring plain link” code.

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
        8·
        11 days ago

        This. They even provide the cover image to use. If they don’t want embedding they could just block the request.

        But they don’t want to. They want to sell the cake and eat it too.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 days ago

      It should only show the title and the link imo.

      That’s infringement in Europe, which makes it effectively a link tax.