From the BBC:
Google has threatened to exclude French media sites from search results if France goes ahead with plans to make search engines pay for content.
In a letter sent to several ministerial offices, Google said such a law "would threaten its very existence".
French newspaper publishers have been pushing for the law, saying it is unfair that Google receives advertising revenue from searches for news.From Journalism in the Americas:
Brazil’s main newspapers abandoned Google News after the world’s top search engine refused to compensate them for the rights to their headlines. The mass rush started last year when the National Association of Newspapers in Brazil, or ANJ, began recommending its members to opt out of the service.
What do you think? Revenue thief or revenue driver? To what extent should copyright cover this activity — should it be fair game, or a restricted act?
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