The European Parliament has just voted to back controversial proposals to reform online copyright — including supporting an extension to cover snippets of publishers content (Article 11), and to
A long-running European legal battle over the copyright status of cached copies of documents held on the computers of Internet users has been resolved today. A preliminary ruling by the European Co
The European Publishers Council (EPC), whose members represent the interests of publishers in 14 European countries, has responded to Google's establishment of a €60 million fund for French publishe
Google is not currently looking to create funds to support digital publishers outside France. Google's comments follow calls last week by the head of the European Publishers Council for Google to pay
A European Publishers members' group and lobby organization has called for Google to expand an offer it made last week of financial help for French publishers. Reuters quotes Francisco Pinto Balsemao,
Google is sounding a warning klaxon about a proposed law change in Germany which aims to strengthen copyright law for publishers by requiring search engines and online news aggregators to pay a royalt
A copyright dispute that has blocked German YouTube users' access to certain music videos continues to rumble on with little sign of a resolution -- despite being ongoing for more than three years alr