[steve-b]

Sorry, Ali -- the courts already decided that small exerpts are fair use.

[b4its2late]

Anything to try to save themselves from collapse.

[RGSpincich]

Google picks through the public domain, accumulates that data and then deems it private property, theirs. Typical liberal mindset.

[Domangart]

But isn't the role of the editor to sell auto adds to generate profit? The loss leader is the news which is a come on to get you to view the adds. Complain about the spin and content. You get "I have spent 31 years in the newspaper business". Doing what?

[KarlInOhio]

Would you want to be the first newspaper to remove yourself from Google. You might as well disappear off the face of the earth as far as most people are concerned. I believe the cliche is "cutting off your nose to spite your face".

[TaxRelief]

Why would they not want the free advertising?

[Zon]

From the article written by a staff writer at CNET.COM

The Paris-based group, which represents 18,000 newspapers, isn't discussing what action it may take. WAN executives said in a statement that they want to explore their options and added that they understand search engines help them in one way: aggregating content and packaging it for consumers. But WAN noted that Web companies also "built their business models in large part on taking content for free."Newspapers want search engines to pay CNET News.com

[Porkandbeeny]

Maybe it's just me, but it sounds like the WAN is upset because they are having trouble maintaining their monopoly on the "truth." They don't like the idea that people can get information without having to pay for it. In another article on this issue a spokesman for the WAN condemned Google for its "absolute view" that information should be free. Sounds a little lefty to me.