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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."

3 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yeah, that's fine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was hard, wasn't it?

  2. Re:Yeah, that's fine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I take it you didn't use Google's/Bing's news search much, because otherwise you'd know they show 2-3 sentence blurbs, barely enough to find relevant articles. Yahoo news search shows somewhat longer snippets, but still shorter than, say, an average /. summary and still not enough to visit only search page.

    This is just yet another attempt at legislation from people unaware of how Internet works and proud of it.

    Here's a beauty:

    The law would oblige Internet aggregators and search engines to pay publishers to display all or part of their articles, including snippets such as headlines embedded in search links, according to the CDU.

  3. Re:again? by next_ghost · · Score: 3, Informative

    No and no.