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Germany was a pioneer with its "Leistungsschutzrecht" and German publishers indeed wanted to force Google to show their news snippets (and therefore pay for the
by elaus 8y ago
Germany was a pioneer with its "Leistungsschutzrecht" and German publishers indeed wanted to force Google to show their news snippets (and therefore pay for them).
Their reasoning was that Google as a monopoly position and therefore they have to show news from all publishers equally.
- undreren 8y agoHow would this work in practice? I could easily set up a news company. Would they have to link to my articles as much as other news articles?
- adrianN 8y agoYou're forgetting the army of lawyers.
- thirdsun 8y agoEquality really wasn’t what the german publishers had in mind. They wanted Google to pay for being able to show a snippet of their content in News. A ridiculous idea, that was countered by the only sensible answer: Google asked publishers if they wanted to continue to have their content listed in Google News for free or if their content should be removed. Needless to say that almost all of the proponents, including the most vocal publishers, agreed to keep their content indexed, thereby rendering the law useless. That’s how it worked in practice.
- pbadenski 8y agoTells you something about Google. They seem to think they're just another company doing business. They're not - they are a monstrous monopoly, quoted response is clearly bullying and should be treated as such.
- thirdsun 8y agoI disagree. The publishers line of thought is absurd. How can anyone reason that publishers should be paid for the major share of visitors Google forwards to their content? Of course publishers have every right to de-index their content from news, search or both and the tools to do so have always been available. However apparently they had to be reminded explicitely. Google, or similar services like Apple News, certainly can't be forced to pay for content they don't want or need.