[governance] Brazilian newspapers leave Google News en masse

[michael gurstein]

(I don't believe that this below has been circulated to the governance
list... Is this part of an emerging trend of resistance to current Internet
business models and how much of this underlies the push forward and push
back by various of the forces contending around the WCIT/ITU discussions?
viz.
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-ituwcit-thinking-about-internet
-regulatory-policy-from-an-ldc-perspective/  and particulalry the
comments...


http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-11803-brazilian-newspapers-leave-goog
le-news-en-masse

Brazil's main newspapers abandoned Google News after the world's top search
engine refused to compensate them for the rights to their headlines. The
mass rush started last year when the National Association of Newspapers in
Brazil, or ANJ, began recommending its members to opt out of the service.




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