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  • From: John Hendrik Weitzmann <jhweitzmann AT mx.uni-saarland.de>
  • To: cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] Google settles dispute with French newspapers
  • Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:25:09 +0100

Hi

if the German LSR plans were only about ad-financed search engines having to share some of their revenue with those that get their visitors redirected by the very same search enginges, we wouldn't have this kind of debate. Unfortunately it's much more complicated.

Best
John


Am 04.02.2013 21:48, schrieb Wolf Ludwig:
Thanks Gisle for sharing this. IMO, it's a stupid move and sort of precedence from
Google setting the wrong signals for the German (and other) LSR debates -- BTW one of
the most ridiculous law-making debates I have followed over the last forty years (or
somehow in the dialectic sense of E. C. Guevara "Let's be realistic, let's demand
the impossible" ;-) I don't think this can be a good compromise, it's simply
inconsistent on various levels.

Best,
Wolf


Gisle Hannemyr wrote Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:53
According to the settlement, as reported on the blog of Google's
Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt -
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/google-creates-60m-digital-publishing.html
- Google has agreed to set up EURO 60 million "Digital Publishing
Innovation Fund", and give French news publishers access to Google's
advertising platforms at a reduced rate.

The fund seems to constitute a one time payment, and displaces an
ongoing license fee (as originally demanded by French news publishers).

While many seem to be surprised by this move on Google's part, it may
simple be an attempt by Google to stall the French government's attempt
to introduce an ancillary copyright (similar to the proposed German
“Leistungsschutzrecht”) that would meant that Google and other
advertising-funded search engines would have to share some of its
advertising revenues with news publishers.
--
- gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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