Google Threatens French Media Ban

another random user writes in with a BBC story about Google's displeasure with proposed French plans to make search engines pay for content. "Google has threatened to exclude French media sites from search results if France goes ahead with plans to make search engines pay for content. In a letter sent to several ministerial offices, Google said such a law 'would threaten its very existence.' French newspaper publishers have been pushing for the law, saying it is unfair that Google receives advertising revenue from searches for news. French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti also favors the idea. She told a parliamentary commission it was 'a tool that it seems important to me to develop.'"

Comments

But where to get it

[Anonymous Coward]

France is out of french money, so where to get more?

Au Revoir!

[oldhack]

Sayonara, froggy asses!

Re:careful what you wish for

[blarkon]

Google is making money on this content - and isn't giving the creators of that content a cut of the money that they are making. Put it this way - say you wrote an amazing article. I summarize it and slap advertisements on it and provide a link to your original article. Lets say that my summary of your work brings me a ten thousand bucks. Shouldn't you be entitled to a cut of that ten thousand bucks? It was your work, I just summarized it and provided a link. Or is my only obligation to you a link that may or may not provide you with revenue?

Re:Easy solution french media

[Sperif]

Nobody read French newspapers because they do not provide informations, just raw gov communication. In fact, if most French newspaper still exist that’s because part of french taxes subsidise them.