Google News and
other news search engines are 'content kleptomaniacs', said
Rupert Murdoch in 2009 and he pulled his newspapers from the
Google search results in 2010. However in September this year he
changed his position and decided that the news snippets should
reappear. Of course, traffic was going down and that means a loss of
income. Now new ideas are emerging at the headquarters of cash
strapped newspapers. Couldn't we start taxing Google and the others
for publishing our content by creating an extension of the copyright,
is the musing of media CEO's? Simply by creating a collecting society
for Google tax, newspapers could join forces in the their fight
against the digital thugs. Published at Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/11/should-newspapers-be-able-to-tax-google-news/
