>Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money, I'm surprised Google News doesn't stick ads on news results and do some sort

>Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money, I'm surprised Google News doesn't stick ads on news results and do some sort of 70/30 profit sharing like YouTube. That's the best way for newspapers to profit from a Google Listing. Instead Google News sidesteps copyright issues by not monetizing news results at all. >EU data protection laws are excellent. Far better than those of the US, which do pretty much the complete opposite Forget laws. Are things better in practice? Because people tend to get enamoured with regulations because they sound great (I mean, who doesn't want low emission, high efficiency cars in 5 years) that are disconnected with reality.