You have fallen victim to the classic fallacy of equating content distributors with content creators. The whole point of these innovations is often breaking up

You have fallen victim to the classic fallacy of equating content distributors with content creators. The whole point of these innovations is often breaking up the relationship between the two. Publishers in Germany are indeed trying to pass a new law that would enable them to sue Google for using snippets on Google News. Thats literally the whole point of the law - get some money out of Google, because they are not making any with their news websites. They have failed monetizing their content and are now trying to corner the biggest single source of traffic hitting their sites. Lament about copyright all you want, this is an industry unwilling to innovate and reform alright.