- Key Development: Legislation proposed in Germany would require new aggregators to get authorization from media companies before they could display snippets of text from articles to internet users.
BERLIN—News aggregators and bloggers would be forced to stop using headlines and snippets from online news articles published by German media outlets, or pay for the right to do so, if German legislators enact a proposed amendment to the German Copyright Act.
Legislators in the lower house of parliament (the Bundestag) began discussions on June 13 regarding a proposed amendment—known as the “Ancillary Copyright Bill” (the Leistungsschutzrecht).
The bill, if ...
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