>the news sites will be forced to give Google (and others) a free license to link to their content. The insidious thing - a free license can't even be offered

>the news sites will be forced to give Google (and others) a free license to link to their content. The insidious thing - a free license can't even be offered under the law. I presume it's meant to preclude both the repeat of the case you mention, and prevent "race to the bottom", i.e., news providers competing with each other on price on resource that has near-zero marginal cost (an article being linked to/snippeted from). From TFA: >Recital 32 suggests that (1) anyone who wants to link to the news has to have a separate, commercial license; >and (2) news companies can't waive this right, (...)