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Newspaper Lobbyists Take Aim at Google News

Posted by Zonk on from the get-off-of-our-lawn dept.

Hitokiri writes "Now that Google News is out of beta the newspaper publishers are starting to take notice. It's important to note that no legal action has taken place yet, but still, there seems to be a battle on the horizon." From the article: "'They're building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content,' Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview. 'The news aggregators are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of an article -- it's for the courts to decide whether that's a copyright violation or not.'"

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  1. Fair Use by elbenito69 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd call it fair use, advertising for the news sources even, but of course I'm probably biased because Google News is just so damn convienent.

    1. Re:Fair Use by sirnuke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I wonder if the newspapers have considered that a majority of Google News reader probably won't go to their site unless the user see an interesting article on google news? Why pay for advertising when you can get someone else to do it for you for free?

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  2. I predict... by xstonedogx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...that Google's response will be, "If you don't want to be listed, you don't have to be listed. Bye."

    It amazes me how willing people are to shoot themselves in the foot.

  3. "Shooting themselves in the foot" is right by GPS+Pilot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks to Google News, I've made hundreds of visits to news organizations' web sites that I wouldn't otherwise have made. And on all of those visits, I've viewed ads for which the news organizations earned money.

    Silly journalists...

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