Rent-Extraction

Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers

2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

By 2013, the systematic exploitation of publishers through Google’s advertising technology monopoly had become evident. Publishers and advertisers discovered that Google was extracting 30-50% of advertising spending that flowed through its platforms—two to three times the take-rate of …

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Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years

1998-10-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

President Bill Clinton signs the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), extending copyright terms by 20 years—from life plus 50 years to life plus 70 years for individual authors, and from 75 to 95 years for corporate works. The legislation, derisively nicknamed the ‘Mickey Mouse …

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