Google's "Verteidige Dein Netz" campaign, or Defend Your Net
The proposals would effectively extend copyright so Google, which has an almost complete monopoly on the German web search market, would pay to index and link to newspaper and magazine material online.
Like news publishers across the Western world, the German industry has been battered by economic forces and the gradual shift of readers from print to the web, where advertising rates are typically much lower.
Google does not publicly disclose how much it makes from Google News, but in 2008, its head of search Marissa Mayer, who left this year to become chief executive of Yahoo!, estimated the annual revenues at $100m. The figure is likely to have grown significantly since then, in line with increasing online news consumption.
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