Google: intellectual property right "unprecedented intervention" into the net
U.S. Internet giant Google has criticized the proposed ancillary rights for published products again violently. "Such a law protects no one and hurts everyone," said Google spokesman Kay Oberbeck. In his commentary for the news agency DAPD warns Oberbeck, this "world's unprecedented intervention into the architecture of the Internet" which in Germany would cause serious economic damage.
The German press publishers are advocating for a law that protects their releases on the Internet prior to the sale by a third party. You want to participate in the commercial use of their content. In the federal government, the publishing lobby came despite cautious distancing attempts Chancellor not fall on deaf ears, was finally decided in the coalition agreement between the CDU and FDP Sun Berlin had a first draft after heavy criticism, however, cash back, because the law was too broad and some collateral damage should be absent.
The repaired, then this draft is a de facto "Lex Google". Funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice proposed rule takes bloggers and other individuals largely from the firing line. The design focuses on the exploitation by news aggregators and search engines like Google. The Group can not understand: 100,000 clicks per minute would come over to the side of the publishers Google says Oberbeck. "It is absurd that, of all people search engines should be addressees of the law." With the criticism of the new design is not only Google.
Even after the new draft to "small parts" of a publishing product is under one year of protection and his license. Them should automatically generated excerpts as the usual Google "snippets" are recognized in the results of search engines as well as headlines. "If these mini-texts future costs are," that would be a risk for "bloggers, media, start-ups and each company with its own website," says Oberbeck. Pure links and citations should be covered by copyright law, according to the draft law, however, allowed to continue.
With the new version, moreover, the publishers are not happy, who had hailed the first draft is still closed. Industry associations and VDZ BDZV is the current draft does not go far enough. "That would be a free ride for the aggregators that already suck the publishing websites to make money", the associations were announced in late July in a joint statement. They cling to their destination, "equated press publishers in the online environment with other business intermediaries" and call on the federal government not to act "half-hearted".
The publisher organizations make pressure, they want the related right until the end of the legislature in the fall of 2013, signed and sealed. Then should their chances dwindle. The federal government, however, seems to be in no hurry to advance the story. In the Cabinet, the topic has not yet come to the table. So there is only a draft, which nobody really wants. Whose chances of making it to the statute book, one can not estimate too high. Google upset now at a round table at the chancellery. Even that takes time, of the publishers do not have much.
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