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Germany Passes 'Google Tax' Law
- GigaOm, Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:10 PM
The German parliament has passed a controversial law that will force search engines and news aggregators to pay publishers royalties for providing snippets of their articles in results. The Bundestag passed the Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger, or “ancillary copyright for press publishers” law, on Friday by 293 votes to 243. Germany’s coalition government was the driver behind the law, and the main opposition, the SPD, now says it will try to defeat the law in the country’s second legislative chamber, the Bundesrat.
