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Google has no legal right to publish materials it doesn't own the copyright to, and that includes almost everything in its index. Their "opt-out" blah blah bla
by mynameishere 17y ago
Google has no legal right to publish materials it doesn't own the copyright to, and that includes almost everything in its index. Their "opt-out" blah blah blah is meaningless. News Corp, the AP, Reuters, the NYTs, McClatchy, will all take microsoft's money and/or sue google for its infractions long before going out of business. If google likewise has to actually pay for material, it will be time to short sell GOOG very hard.
- djcapelis 17y agoIt certainly doesn't have a right to publish those materials. It has every right to index them. I agree that Google News will need to die if the publishers don't want them to list their news there, but the actual search engine itself? Indexing is not publishing. How many times do we have to fight this battle?
- vetinari 17y agoIndexing and returning results to search queries is not the same as publishing. The cache feature is publishing, but it is easy to remove it without impacting Google in significant way.