The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, whose members include dozens of national newspaper trade bodies, has announced that it is exploring ways to "challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without fair compensation to copyright owners."
It looks like they are aiming particularly at services such as Google News, which aggregates news content and pulls in headlines, photos and short excerpts of articles from thousands of news sources, linking back to the publishers' own site. But Google doesn't pay the content owners, does not carry advertising on the site and often doesn't ask permission of the sites owners (apparently).
Google is about to face a US court in a case which pits Agence France Presse against Google. AFP sued the company last year, alleging that Google News carries its photos, news headlines and stories without permission.
At the present the approach by the World Association of Newspapers is exploratory and constructive. Let's hope it stays that way, for news aggregation services are becoming increasingly valuable and popular.
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