The German cabinet backed a draft law requiring Google and other news aggregators to pay for summarized information they display before linking to a source – a move that has outraged the Internet giant, politicians and bloggers alike.
The move, backed by publishing giants like the Axel Springer group, was originally proposed by the Federation of German News Publishers – who were very upset with lost advertising revenue.
The law is about piracy and stealing content on the Internet, said federation spokeswoman Anja Pasquay. Search engines are pirating content by publishing the snippets, “and they don’t even ask, they simply take it,” she said.
More:
http://rt.com/news/germany-law-google-copyright-973/
Previously:
Internet 2 will enable new innovative services to analyze, copy and monetize much higher volumes of other people’s information and data in a much faster way
http://vrritti.com/2012/07/15/internet-2-will-enable-new-innovative-services-to-analyze-copy-and-monetize-much-higher-volumes-of-other-peoples-information-and-data-in-a-much-faster-way/
