[hellrich]

Wanting to force someone to advertise your product and charge him for it sounds so backwards, especially from a right-wing company. I'm happy this terrible excuse for a publisher couldn't get through with it. Will be interesting to see the Bild headlines about it, at the moment they are still busy rallying against unions (e.g. by printing the phone numbers of union leaders).

[thirdsun]

I've been following this Leistungsschutzrecht development for a long time now and I still can't believe how ridiculous it is or that the law actual passed.

Now, after taking a step back, failing to force Google to pay for providing a service that is much more beneficial to Springer than it is to Google, Bild and Springer try to paint a picture that displays them as the victims in this issue, being bullied by big old Google. It gets more absurd by the day.

Also, this right only applies to Google - if you're DuckDuckGo or any other search engine you're still not allowed to show snippets from Springer media. So they are complaining about Google's market dominating position by strengthening it? Utterly absurd.

[mironathetin]

Springer and especially Bild are famous for hounding everybody who is not nice to them. Lets see what they do with Google now :o).

Will be fun to watch Google presenting those headlines in the search results.

And I agree, it is a ridiculous fight and Springer is more to blame than Google in this case. But, that's what happens in saturated markets. Its business.

[uniformlyrandom]

To play the devil's advocate:

- Bild makes money from the online visits.

- Google makes money form the online visits as well.

- Bild actually provides content for Google to generate that revenue.

Why should not Google pay for the content (a percentage of ad revenue generated by the news.google.com would do nicely)?

[fwn]

They don't want Google to be able to buy it. They want Google to be forced to buy it.

If you took ice cream for free that doesn't give anyone the right to force you to buy it.

[Retric]

You’re forgetting Google is a global company. If they get a specific tax on content their simply going to drop the market to avoid such taxes spreading. They might even simply decide to avoid doing business in Germany entirely. Net result a worse compeditor shows up discuraging users and Bild loses even more money.

[Sven7]

Does Google News generate revenue? I