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German Law To Make Google Pay For Snippets

Posted by timothy on from the die-schnippets-sind-aber-teuer! dept.

judgecorp writes "The German government has announced plans for a copyright law which would require Google, other search engines, and aggregators to pay for small snippets of text displayed on their pages. Journalistic citations and private users will be exempt."

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  1. Re:Nein nein nein by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Achtung!!! this is a bad idea, copyright law is out of hand.

    You know, I increasingly think that this be read aloud any time a government tries to pass a law about technology.

    DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FUR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!

    If you don't know how it works, don't touch it. :-P

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  2. Re:Yeah, that's fine. by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry... he's coming.

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  3. Re:Yeah, that's fine. by Rhodri+Mawr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bloody Germans, shutting down Google in Greece. How low will they stoop? Is this another condition of the bail-out?


    (the German TLD is .de BTW)