Google News forced to suppress copyrighted images
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on December 12, 2006 at 10:52 AM
Google News, which has usually been resilient when put under copyright pressure issues, suffered a first drawback. The Norwegian version of Google News was forced to stop publishing copyrighted images after repeated attacks by the Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association (MBL).
The Norwegian version had been put under pressure by the MBL since its launch on Nov.16th. Google News Norway can now only display images coming from non-MBL news sites – almost none since most Norwegian sources are MBL members.
According to Poynter Institute writer Steffen Fjaervik, this makes Google News Norway “a severely less interesting and comprehensive site.” A first win for copyright protectors in the copyright war against mass aggregation websites.
Source: Poynter.org
According to Poynter Institute writer Steffen Fjaervik, this makes Google News Norway “a severely less interesting and comprehensive site.” A first win for copyright protectors in the copyright war against mass aggregation websites.
Source: Poynter.org
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My article was published in your paper on Sep 3, 2006 please send me its soft version through email for my record. Thanx
Mohammed Akmal Pasha
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Why doesn't Google just pay the copyright owners (for a change)?
Bill