Google Defeats Publishers Over Web Copyright in German Vote

[Honigsenf]

[...A majority of lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition allowed companies such as Google to display “single words or very small text excerpts” referring to publishers’ websites at no cost. For content exceeding these limits, publishers retain the exclusive right of use, according to the bill...]

source http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/google-defeats-publishers-over-copyright-in-german-parliament.html


Would be interesting to know how the number of page impressions of news sites like spiegel online etc. would decrease when they would be removed from google news site ( because i dont believe google would pay for ) .

what a luck small snippets, like the above, still allowed  :rules:

[~Legend~]

It would probably be difficult to make them pay for something they are essentially putting on free web space. People are accessing it for free, they are normally not selling it, and as far as I know they're not plagiarising.

[Marcel]

It would probably be difficult to make them pay for something they are essentially putting on free web space. People are accessing it for free, they are normally not selling it, and as far as I know they're not plagiarising.

True, Google is just quoting which is something i consider fair use.

[SugarD]

True, Google is just quoting which is something i consider fair use.

Technically speaking, unless there is something on the website specifically prohibiting quoting information, it would fall under both fair use and public domain. :P