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Lol wtf does he think would happen if successful? That Google would pay the fee or just drop fox from all search results?
by bloppe 4y ago
Lol wtf does he think would happen if successful? That Google would pay the fee or just drop fox from all search results?
- nl 4y agoBoth Google and Facebook are paying in Australia. (In Australia his main publications are news.com.au and associated other mastheads, and Sky News. Fox isn't a player).
- Gigachad 4y agoPart of the law was that you couldn't drop one publisher, you had to pay for all news links or drop all news from the platform. Facebook claimed they would and actually did drop news for a few weeks but eventually backtracked and agreed to pay.
- gonzo41 4y agoAustralia has pretty terrible defamation laws, this was probably an attempt to make money. Sadly it usually works.
- nl 4y agoThis is unrelated to defamation laws in any way.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> This is unrelated to defamation laws in any way. Did you even read the case-summary? "The respondent commenced proceedings, claiming damages for defamation from the appellant"
- simiones 4y agoSure, the article is about defamation, but the current sub-thread is about Rupert Murdoch wanting Google to pay for linking to his news stories - which has nothing at all to do with defamation.
- nl 4y agoYes "this" was supposed to mean the whole "pay for news" thing has nothing to do with defamation laws.