Google News Link Tax

furthermore the article says this:> It responded to similar legislative efforts in France and Spain by eliminating news from its search results — a move that ultimately resulted in a new agreement with publishers to pay them for content. The details of this remain unclear, but such agreements generally result in relatively insubstantial payments.so this is a technique that google used before with good results. a better title "google should be made to regret its threat"

If you look at the whole thing, it does not make any sense at all. Except the media seeing google generating a shit load of money and wanting to take a part of it.If you think about it, if the article might be interesting, you will go to the website of the media anyway.But now, most media here are really crappy and are just formatting news from AFP (french Reuter equivalent) or from gov or corp press releases without doing real journalism. And so, logically from their point of view, just s

It's not a 100% match, but some years back Spain came up with a system where Google News would be required to pay money to the news sites they linked to. Google responded by simply turning off Google News in Spain, which immediately cost Spanish news sites to lose a sizable percentage of traffic and millions of dollars in revenue: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-spains-google-tax-has-been-a-disaster-for-publishers/" rel

why does google need to do anything? why is it google's fault that the news publishers don't know how to make money?

I over-simplified. It's about Google News. The news paper companies managed to lobby for a law that requires search providers to pay money to the news papers they link to (or for the tiny excerpt they show in the search results). So Google said they will discontinue Google News in those countries. Suddenly the news papers gave Google a free license to link to them. (still simplified story)

The law prevents Google from removing their results. Ie the news companies are freeloading from Google.

It's about registered news companies being able to force Google/FB to bargain/arbitration about revenues from displaying their news on the platform.

An interesting related story that has been hitting the news this evening:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/google-agrees-to...

You are definitely right - Google (News) provides a huge benefit to news publishers, it is responsible for most of their traffic, and still German Lawmakers tried making a law against that so that on top of all what Google does for the publishers, they should also pay for that privilege - the infamous Leistungsschutzrecht[1].[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

News outlets are trying to make Google pay for snippets.