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German Law To Make Google Pay For Snippets

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @03:10AM 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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Re:Yeah, that's fine. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-13 04:07 · Score: 5, Informative

This was hard, wasn't it?
Re:again? by next_ghost · 2012-03-13 04:59 · Score: 3, Informative

No and no.