{"id":10033,"date":"2013-03-04T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2013-03-04T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:35:14","slug":"after-frances-success-german-press-seeks-remuneration-from-news-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/03\/after-frances-success-german-press-seeks-remuneration-from-news-snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"After France’s “success”, German press seeks remuneration from News snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"google-germany-logo-06\"It seems that Google just can’t past this whole “stop pirating our bylines” thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories. This comes just months after the French press industry settled its similar disputes with Google, who promised to create a digital press fund<\/a>\u00a0worth 60 million euros, in addition to closer relationships between online media and Google’s ad business (=more favorable rates). The French government, alongside the traditional French press industry, had been negotiating with Google for quite some time, and the government was threatening a similar law if such a settlement could not be reached. As some predicted<\/a>, settling with France may have opened up the flood gates of European governments asking for press grants.<\/p>\n

Google has already stated that it would not be striking similar deals with other European countries<\/a>; however, we’ll just have to wait and see on this one. Up to this point, there is no clarity about what the fund will be used for, what the terms &\u00a0conditions\u00a0will look like, or when it will be established; however, one thing is sure – Google will not be paying a licensing fee.<\/p>\n

The country of Brazil passed a similar law<\/a> requiring snippets on Google to be paid for, and the country has since been de-referenced in Google<\/a>. If Germany is looking to strike up an ultimatum with Google, they better be ready to accept the consequences – Brazil lost only 5% of its total traffic to online media, and it will likely be higher for Germany, who has already built a close relationship with the search giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that Google just can’t past this whole “stop pirating our bylines” thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories. This comes just months after the French press industry settled its similar disputes with Google,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[1580,129],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-germany","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}