German Publishers Can't Wean Themselves Off Google News, Despite Winning Copyright Law Change
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Germany’s new copyright law comes into force today but several major German publishers haven’t rushed to pull their news snippets from Google News, despite lobbying in favour of tightening the law. On the contrary, they have opted in to carry on having their snippets displayed. Call it a love/hate relationship, where ‘love’ refers to the traffic generated by click-throughs from Google News and ‘hate’ to the sense of indignation that Google gets to cream off news content and use it to power its own aggregator service.
German publishers including Axel Springer – whose publications include the newspapers Die Welt and Bild – had lobbied for German copyright law to be extended to cover the snippets of stories Google displays in its News service. They also lobbied for search engines to pay publishers to display these news snippets. But it’s one of several big German publishers that have apparently opted in to Google News.
A screengrab of today’s Google News German homepage shows several Die Welt stories in prominent positions:
Ahead of the new law force, coming into Google changed how Google News operates in Germany, making it an opt-in service, rather than the current default opt-out in all other markets where it operates a local Google News service.
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Germany’s new copyright law comes into force today but several major German publishers haven’t rushed to pull their news snippets from Google News, despite lobbying in favour of tightening the law. On the contrary, they have opted in to carry on having their snippets displayed. Call it a love/hate relationship, where ‘love’ refers to the traffic generated by click-throughs from Google News and ‘hate’ to the sense of indignation that Google gets to cream off news content and use it to power its own aggregator service.
German publishers including Axel Springer – whose publications include the newspapers Die Welt and Bild – had lobbied for German copyright law to be extended to cover the snippets of stories Google displays in its News service. They also lobbied for search engines to pay publishers to display these news snippets. But it’s one of several big German publishers that have apparently opted in to Google News.
A screengrab of today’s Google News German homepage shows several Die Welt stories in prominent positions:
Ahead of the new law force, coming into Google changed how Google News operates in Germany, making it an opt-in service, rather than the current default opt-out in all other markets where it operates a local Google News service.
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