Internet News Article | Reuters.com
The newspaper industry, the world over, has decided to come against Google for its free news aggregator service.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search engines like Google that aggregate news content.
The move comes as the newspaper industry’s traditional business model is under pressure with advertising spending shifting away from print and toward the Internet.
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The rational of the newspaper industry:
“They’re building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content,” Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview.
“The news aggregators are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of an article — it’s for the courts to decide whether that’s a copyright violation or not.”
Seems like the same sort of thing when search engines in general became popular. Website owners complained that Yahoo, and other search engines where profiting from the content provided by the sites they indexed. It is amazing that in the with so much content out there site like Google are not just convenient they are a necessity if the user is ever going to be in touch with the information he wants or needs. This is SO early nineties
