European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill

Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:03AM (#17355404)

This isn't true if you realize what sort of "snippets" they are trying to deal with. Google has been scraping content for Knowledge Graph, and offering up "the answers" so that users don't click through any links. So Google rips off other companies' content, and has basically said "if you don't like it, feel free to block Google with robots.txt and get delisted from search".

So Google has left the option that sites either give Google their content for free, and go out of business, or get delisted from search entirely, and go out of business.

https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet... is a pretty good example of why this is happening.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by detaro on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:06AM (#17355440)

I've literally never seen one of those knowledge-graph snippets relating to current news? Google News now has stopped showing teaser texts for news for some publishers after a similar German law was passed, but "surprisingly" the majority of publishers preferred to allow Google to show teasers... (Which is why there's now talk of forbidding publishers to grant that permission for free)

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