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German Publishers Complain to Cartel Authorities about Google

By Andis Kaulins

Ralf Rottmann at TheNextWeb.com headlines his article Oh no, German publishers call cartel authority to go against Google and writes inter alia:

"Yesterday, Google Germany confirmed that the German newspaper publishers association (BDZV), Microsoft owned Ciao and online maps service Euro-Cities AG called the German cartel authorities to investigate Google?s business practices, for various different reasons.

At the heart of their complaint they sing along the well-known Rupert Murdoch idea: ?We have no clue how to innovate our own business model, so we?d love to get a share of Google?s ads revenues!?

The rationale behind it is the assertion, by grabbing parts of their ?valuable content?, created at ?extremely high production costs? and inserting it into search results, Google would violate the publishers? intellectual property rights."

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Full post as published by LawPundit on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).