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June 22, 2013 12:34 am GMT

Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees Under New Copyright Law

de_reunification07Google News in Germany will soon change. Starting August 1, it will only index sources that have decided to explicitly opt-in to being shown on the search giant's news-aggregation service. Google News remains an opt-out service in the other 60 countries and languages it currently operates in, but since Germany passed a new copyright law earlier this year that takes effect on August 1, the company is in danger of having to pay newspapers, blogs and other publishers for the right to show even short snippets of news.

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