We had the exact same situation in Germany already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancill

We had the exact same situation in Germany already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_... In the end Google said "ok, then we'll stop listing you" and suddenly the publishers that wanted this law gave Google permission to link to them without cost. Sounds okay in theory, but every minor search engine or news aggregator which doesn't have the defacto monopoly of Google still suffers from it.