Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
It appears that French language newspapers don't like traffic driven to their websites. Belgian print media group Copiepresse has taken a lead from Agence France Presse (AFP) and successfully sued Google for displaying headlines and linking to stories from 17 papers through its Google News aggregation site.
The ruling in the Brussels Court of First
Instance will be appealed by Google which through its lawyers claims
that it will not have wider ramifications because most news publishers
want to have their content linked by Google.
A key issue for Copiepresse is that, like many newspaper groups from
the pre-Internet age, it's newspapers charge readers for archived
content on the web. However, Google often provides access to archived
content on newspapers through its cached storage. However, like AFP,
Copiepresse also objected to the reproduction of headlines and text
from its articles.
The Google News site aggegates headlines text from the opening
sentences of stories from a variety of online sites around the world.
When users click on the headlines, they are directed through to the
site from which the story is sourced. Google's argument, which is
supported by a majority of online publishers, is that it only
republishes samples of stories in line with existing fair use laws and
drives traffic to the original content providers.
After its initial court room success, Copiepresse is now pressing to
have Google retrospectively pay daily fines of €25,000 since September
2006. The newspaper group is also pressing ahead with negotiations with
Yahoo and MSN.
The court ruling may have opened a can of worms which may see the print
media forced to come to terms with the new way of distributing content
on the Internet. With many online publications making archived content
freely available, the business model of charging for access to archived
content employed by traditional print media may prove to be
increasingly untenable.
David Bass
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