Google Threatens to Shut Services in Australia

Google has threatened to close its search engine in Australia —in response to the draft legislation in Australia that is intended to force Google to pay news publishers for reuse of their content.

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  • The draft legislation for Australia’s digital news Code which is currently before the parliament includes a controversial requirement that tech giants Google and Facebook pay publishers for linking to their content — not merely for displaying snippets of text.
  • In the EU, the Google is subject to an already reformed copyright directive that extended a neighbouring right for news content to cover reuse of snippets of text. ....
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