German news publishers are picking up where the Belgians left off, a
now not-so-proud tradition of suing Google for being included in its
listings rather than choosing to opt-out. This time, the publishers want
an 11% cut of Google’s revenue related to them being listed.
The news comes from Jeff Jarvis,
who writes that a group representing about half the major news
publishers in Germany have a started an arbitration process demanding
that Google pay 11% of revenue related to listing links to and
descriptions of their content.
The actual suit (in German) from the VG Media industry group is here, which demands up to 11% of all gross sales worldwide (plus VAT!) of revenue related to its content, as of August 1, 2013.
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