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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.'"

3 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. FIRST POST :^) by NetRAVEN5000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No, seriously, though. . .

    So Google News is a news portal. So what? Who cares?

    Don't they know that that's the whole point of a news portal?

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  2. news.yahoo.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The better source of news, and they pay for the feeds. Plus it is organized much better. I used news.yahoo.com and quote.yahoo.com to learn of GOOG Earnings miss and yahoo shows me that GOOG is down near 70dollars now in AH trading.

  3. Aim? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is everyone shooting everyone today?