Google will not pay European news publishers for the right to show content on its news service in the search engine’s first major response to the EU’s copyright directive. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Google said it will only display headlines and thumbnails of news stories from EU publications in France to comply with the country’s national copyright law that comes into force in late next month. Instead publishers will choose how much information — including snippets — they would like to show on Google News. Read More...
Google will not pay European news publishers for the right to show content on its news service in the search engine’s first major response to the EU’s copyright directive. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Google said it will only display headlines and thumbnails of news stories from EU publications in France to comply with the country’s national copyright law that comes into force in late next month. Instead publishers will choose how much information — including snippets — they would like to show on Google News.
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