{"id":149780,"date":"2010-01-07T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/France-Considering-Advertising-Tax-for-Google-Microsoft-Facebook-131486.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:27:00","slug":"france-considering-advertising-tax-for-google-microsoft-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/149780","title":{"rendered":"France Considering Advertising Tax for Google, Microsoft, Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

France is once again leading the way with a new proposal to advance the state of the Internet after the very popular, and apparently delayed, ‘three strikes’ law. A report presented to the French officials suggests a great way of helping the misfortune news publishers and the music industry, which just can’t seem to be raking in the kind of revenue they’ve been used to, by taxing online advertising. The report claims that companies like Google, Microsoft or Yahoo shouldn’t be able to profit from the advertising they sell while the poor content creators can hardly make ends meet. And if that doesn’t cut it, ISPs should also pay based on their traffic.<\/p>\n

The French government, known for its innovative solutions and practical approaches to solving this nefarious problem, represented by its culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand put together a crack team to come up with a plan. Dubbed the Zelnik Mission, the group was formed by Patrick Zelnik, who also lent his name, a former music executive at Polydor and Virgin France currently CEO of independent music label Naïve, Guillaume Cerutti CEO of Sotheby’s France and former culture minister Jacques Toubon.<\/p>\n

The team now presented their proposals to the French government and isn’t trying to hide that some of the more controversial pro… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France is once again leading the way with a new proposal to advance the state of the Internet after the very popular, and apparently delayed, ‘three strikes’ law. A report presented to the French officials suggests a great way of helping the misfortune news publishers and the music industry, which just can’t seem to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}