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It's the usual nonsense. Old media, newspapers, television broadcast, etc... would like to extract tax from Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc... who
by parasense 4y ago
It's the usual nonsense. Old media, newspapers, television broadcast, etc... would like to extract tax from Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc... who hyperlink to media on their websites. They would very much like the courts to determine, in their favor, that a hyperlink is effectively re-publication of their copyrighted materials, thus entitling them to compensations.
- ponco 4y agoI wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this as Murdoch machinations (old media tax extraction - besides, that's settled law here). During oral arguments one of the justices rightly pointed out that Google has a financial incentive in hyperlinking. Consider that Google may summarise a news article and display it in the search results - effectively stealing the ad traffic from the news publisher.
- simondotau 4y agoI'm no fan of Google but it really was the height of hypocrisy for news publishers to demand their content be visible in Google search results while simultaneously complaining that their copyright is being infringed with respect to titles/snippets. Explicitly allowing crawlers and — perhaps most tellingly, offering specific metadata for SEO optimisations — is tacit permission for the republication of hyperlinks/titles/snippets. If you don't like that deal, just deny Googlebot (et al). It really is that simple. The settled law is a joke. (Or in the alternative, as a non-news publisher, I want my cut too.)