European News Outlets Nipping at Google's Hand

Later this month, German legislators will take up debate on a bill extending copyright protection to snippets of news articles that appear in search engine results. Google has warned both Germany and France -- which has proposed similar legislation -- that it is not willing to play along, and will simply black out media outlets that try to levy such fees. However, German copyright laws are different from those in the United States, and they tend to favor content creators above all.

Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/25aea8f9/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C766540Bhtml/story01.htm

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