Mr Cat Dog
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Full article hereThe Economist said:In Germany politicians are considering a bill to extend copyright protection to excerpts of newspaper articles appearing in search engines' results, thus enabling publishers to collect payment for them. Google is the main target: some German newspaper executives say it benefits from showcasing their material in search results on its news aggregator, Google News. A similar bill has been proposed in Italy. French newspapers want the same. On October 29th President François Hollande warned Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, that if French newspapers' demands for compensation are not met by year-end, France may pass a law akin to the German one. Austrian and Swiss publishers are thinking along similar lines.
Giving away the headline and first sentence of an article supposedly dissuades readers from clicking through to the newspaper's website to read the entire story. Critics also say that lifting even snippets of articles means Google can sell advertisements alongside them on its search platform (though Google News carries no ads).
But the benefit goes the other way, too. Google says it directs 4 billion clicks to news websites every month; perhaps as much as three-quarters of Google News users go on to read the full article. And newspapers can add a tag to their pages so that they do not appear in Google News.
I thought about putting this in GE, but then thought it'd be a better fit here, given the whole 'Google'-component to it. What do you guys think of these proposed measures?