I agree this is fair if everyone has a fair chance to index that content for an equal price. If any search engine were allowed to index Fox's content (or any ot

I agree this is fair if everyone has a fair chance to index that content for an equal price. If any search engine were allowed to index Fox's content (or any other site of course) for an equal fee then this is fair. It is fair and just for content creators to get paid. However if, as the article suggests, there is exclusivity and a case where Bing is allowed to index it and Google is not given a fair chance at such, this could run afoul of antitrust laws. As I mentioned in a sub-comment below, exclusivity like this is inherently anti-competitive which has a high likelihood to be found in violation of antitrust. (Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pict...)