Scott Macauley is on this issue more diligently than I can be. Check out his post on the Filmmaker Blog. He quotes from Peter Osnos on Today’s Zaman :
But the major point is that Google has now conceded, with a very large payment, that “information is not free.” This leads to an obvious, critical question: Why aren’t newspapers and magazines demanding payment for use of their stories on Google and other search engines? Why are they not getting a significant slice of the advertising revenues generated by use of their stories via Google?
