[LINK] Australian Supreme Court rules that Google is a publisher

[Tom Worthington]

On 4/5/20 12:52 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:


> Australia Supreme Court rules that Google is a publisher...

Be careful what you wish for. Google might to start to behave like a 
traditional newspaper publisher. Imagine their search engine producing 
results like a tabloid newspaper. You would only get results slanted to 
the political views of the publisher, stores about celebrities, dubious 
science, and stuff stolen from other publishers. ;-)

More seriously, instead of paying publishers for content, Google could 
simply exclude those publishers from search results.


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