Makes online platforms choose to pay online news providers or donate to a group for civic information. Creates a group for civic information to give grants.
Requires online platforms to pay digital journalism providers or donate to the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Allows an online platform to use an arbitration process to determine the percentage of an online platform’s advertising revenue to be remitted to digital journalism providers. Prohibits an online platform from retaliating against digital journalism providers. Requires online platforms to report annually certain information about compensation paid to digital journalism providers. Establishes the Oregon Civic Information Consortium to advance research and innovation in media and technology. Directs that each public university shall participate in the consortium. Directs the consortium to award grants for applicants that seek to improve civic information.
Proposed regulations on the interstate provision of digital services can have a significant impact on our members, including those that host or link to news content. SB 686 will not solve the challenges newsrooms are facing today and will instead have long-lasting, detrimental effects on Oregon’s news and digital services industries.
Congress has the power to regulate the trade between states rather than individual states. . The First Amendment protects against the government either prohibiting speech — or forcing people or businesses to speak or otherwise display particular speech.
SB 686 conflicts with the Supremacy Clause because it requires payment for the
display of headlines, ledes, facts, and other elements of copyrightable works that the Copyright
Act provides are freely accessible. Because of this, the bill is also expressly preempted by
Section 301(a) of the U.S. Copyright Act.
The funding hoping to keep Oregon’s media thriving would go out-of-state owned by
hedge funds or broadcasting conglomerates. Taxing linking will drive media into a controlled monopoly and will destroy free speech and fosters misinformation.
SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE by 4/25 at 1pm
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Sen.KayseJama@OregonLegislature.gov
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