Das Leistungsschutzrecht wirkt

[lyorn]

... aber vielleicht nicht ganz wie geplant: Mehrere Suchmaschinen zeigen Verlagsseiten nicht mehr an.

There's a recent law in Germany that says "search engines that diplay snippets from online newspaper articles in their results have to pay the newspaper for using their material". "Snippets" in this regard may be as few as three words (it is not really defined.) Some newspapers have declared intent to enforce this, and in one case, in July, sued. As of Aug 1st, these newspapers have been de-listed from the search engines of the large German ISPs.

Of course, no one could have expected that...

Comments

[legionseagle]

Oh, God, I knew what we needed was a Europe-wide fair-use exception, not this stupid mish-mash of fair dealing exceptions which never were intended to apply in the internet age.

[lyorn]

I knew what we needed was a Europe-wide fair-use exception

Preferrably a not-stupid one. Stupidity in the German laws on these issues is really fractal, the closer you look, the more there is.

When it comes to copyright, not only the media conglomerates but also trade associations which are more parochial and have at least as little sense of proportion (GEMA. YouTube. *headdesk*) add to it. Occasionally the courts issue a "WTFBBQ" and mitigate the worst effects, but occasionally they do the reverse, and having these things decided by courts on the go isn't really a good thing for a law system based on Napoleonic code...

So, every case of karma hitting where it hurts, even if doled out by the really unpopular ISPs (or Google) is reason for gloating in the general public.