Newspapers want search engines to pay copyright fee
Internet has undercut the business of newspapers and magazines for years and they are very pressure with advertising spending shifting away from print and toward the Internet. Now these traditional media are looking for ways to fight back.
Web search engine like Google is profiting from the use of headlines, photos and short excerpts of articles without compensating the publishers a cent and the newspapers that content comes from.
According to WAN (World Association of Newspapers), they understand search engines help them in one way which is aggregating content and packaging it for consumers. But web companies build their business models in large part on taking content for free.
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