Posted on 12/06/2005 1:20:54 PM PST by heldmyw
BRUSSELS, Belgium - European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content. "The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years," said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Publishers Council, in prepared remarks for a speech at a Brussels conference.
His stance backs French news agency AFP, which is suing Google for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news Web sites.
"It is fascinating to see how these companies 'help themselves' to copyright-protected material, build up their own business models around what they have collected, and parasitically, earn advertising revenue off the back of other people's content," he said.
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So they're going to sue.
Hell, it'll actually improve the results!
They're probably pissed off about the "French Military Victories" search results.
So let's see ...
They put content on the web,
accessible at no charge to the public,
presumably intended to be seen,
and they whine because someone makes it
easy to find?
How typically French.
I don't understand. News orgs print papers with "content." After buying said "content", you throw away the "content" or line your bird cage with it. The next day, new "content" is thrown at your door at 4:00am and wakes you up. Now, this day to day "content" with its shelf life of about a day, is valuable the next day???
parsy, who thinks piracy is the American thing to do.
LOL!
Oh, MAN!!! I'm going to be denied content from the Euro-weenies!!!!!
(YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!)
This makes me had because I've lost a few Hundred bucks on GOOG today thanks to this story hitting the wires. Otherwise I don't care. Investing is awesome.
Did it ever occur to them that if it wasn't for Google, nobody would view their content in the first place?
Probably linked to the US refusal to hand over the internet to the UN.
Who the hell needs french news anyway. Who cares how many autos can be burned in one night?
Me thinks ballsy Francisco is going to go the way of Ford Pinto!
French news? Isn't that an oxymoron?
LOL
Well, if the European newspapers don't want people to read theirn stories, just disconnect from the internet. That is, essentially, what they are doing. Either join the on-line community or stay isolated.
"The new models of Ford and others reverse the traditional horse-drawn model of transportation that we have built up over the years," said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Buggy-Whip Makers Council, in prepared remarks for a speech at a Brussels conference.
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