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Newspaper Association Seeks Google's Help in Assisted Suicide

John Paczkowski writes on Good Morning, Silicon Valley:

How ironic is it that I stumbled across a story about a group of newspaper publishers' plans to "challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without fair compensation to copyright owners" on Google News? Pretty damn ironic, especially since Google made no money on that transaction (no ads on Google News, ya know).

But try explaining that to the World Association Of Newspapers (WAN), which apparently longs for the days of the town crier. The WAN is coordinating a campaign to demand compensation from Google and other search engines that aggregate their content. "The search engines are increasingly aiming their strategic efforts at traditional content originators and aggregators like newspaper publishers," WAN President Gavin O'Reilly said in prepared remarks.

posted by Fergie @ 2/02/2006 07:36:00 AM