German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts

An anonymous reader writes with this news from Australia's Computerworld: "The German parliament is set to discuss a controversial online copyright bill that is meant to allow news publishers to charge search engines such as Google for reproducing short snippets from their articles. Earlier this week, Google started a campaign against the proposed law. Google was criticized for its campaign against the law. The search engine 'obviously' tries to use its own users for lobbying interests 'under the pretext of a so-called project for the freedom of the Internet,' wrote Günter Krings and Ansgar Heveling, politicians of the CDU and CSU conservative parties, who together form the biggest block in the German parliament."

Comments

oh, the CDU/CSU taking up a backwards position

[Trepidity]

This is truly a surprising development!

Re:Here's what'll happen.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe the newspapers will make their own search engine, better than Google, and Google will be left out.

Re:Just remove it from Google's DB

[Anonymous Coward]

Even better, Google could charge them to host the excerpts.

Search companies should charge them for indexing

[zome]

For CEOs, it is easier to for them to pay for somethings than give away something for free. So Google, Bing, etc, should come up with the service for those publishers and charge them like $1000 a months to index their website and list it on the search result. If they don't pay, no index for them. It's now a fair game among the publishers thus they can't really sue Google, Bing, etc for anti-competitive.

Then Google, Bing, etc can compete with each others for lower rate. After a while, one, and soon after that, all of them will offer free listing, and those CEO will jump with joy (we didn't have to pay for it anymore, yeh!!)

Problem solved.