The Press Council hopes that the revision of Law Number 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright will receive support from all parties.
Dahlan Dahi, Chairman of the Press Council's Digital and Sustainability Commission , stated that the revised Copyright Law aims to accommodate journalistic products' economic rights amidst the current digital disruption.
"Currently, journalistic works are used as the basis for algorithms to distribute information and news by artificial intelligence (AI) without any compensation at all," Dahlan said in a press conference in Jakarta on Monday, which was monitored online.
In this way, he said, a journalist has produced news at the risk of his life, sometimes at great expense to the press company, but the technology company does not provide any compensation at all.
Therefore, Dahlan stated that this is a very bad tendency and will threaten journalism and institutions in carrying out the function of verifying information conveyed to the public.
He said that was what made the Ministry of Law revise the Copyright Law.
So far, the Press Council and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights have continued to communicate intensively regarding the formulation of journalistic works in the revision of the Copyright Law, as an instrument to improve the health of the press in Indonesia.
