Google Circumvents Germany’s Pay-For-Content Rule by Making News Orgs Opt In

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By: Alison Langley | Columbia Journalism Review

Last spring, Google unsuccessfully tried to prevent a German copyright law that would require news aggregators to pay for the right to use original Web content from taking effect.

Now, the company has turned the tables. In a posting on its German-language blog—followed up by a registered letter to newspaper publishers and major bloggers—Google wrote that publishers must opt in to allow their sites to be used on Google News.































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