Online Content Cannot Remain Free

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 6, 2005 @11:02AM from the sez-you dept.

gamer4Life writes "Publishers from Europe are complaining that Internet search engines are making money off their copyright-protected material. 'This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term.', says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council. These comments are despite the fact that Google does not place ads on their news service. 'Search engines do not reproduce content. They help users find content by pointing to where it exists on the Web.', says Google spokesman, Steve Langdon. This comes after a French news service sued Google for at least $17.5 million."

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Re:Profit Elsewhere by letxa2000 · 2005-12-06 14:29 · Score: 5, Interesting

Google sends business to these retards, if anything. Those that can't make that simple connection need to do us all a favor, and stop breathing.
No kidding. I'm a published author and I'm currently trying to figure out if my publisher is going to get my book listed with Google or if I have to do it myself. One way or another I definitely want my book listed. I can't imagine why an author wouldn't want the contents of his or her book to be searchable on Google.