If they already have the ability and protection for all of this, what difference does the legislation make? If not, how do they already have this freedom?
What do you mean by "freedom to extract money"? Charge and negotiate? If they don't have the right to negotiate fees for commercial use of their content, that sounds like quite a large missing part that needed adding.
Can you explicitly put down a case of something they couldn't do, but now can, and why you think that's a concern? Because I honestly just don't understand the point that people are trying to make with this.
They want google to continue to index them, and to be paid for that. They have 0 leverage to pull that off, so they’re using the legislature to accomplish it.
If they already have the ability and protection for all of this, what difference does the legislation make? If not, how do they already have this freedom?