The Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers Association (BDZV) asked the ruling coalition in the country, the CDU, to draft a law that will require content aggregators to pay publishers for indexing headlines and snippets. To support the BDZV, the German Federal Ministry of Justice (Bundesjustizministerium) drafted the Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverlag, widely known in the The post Google “Defend Your Net” Campaign in Germany Heats Up appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
If the reports are true, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may not have the ammunition to proceed with an anti-trust case versus Google.