Google May Be Forced to Change Under Austria’s New Copyright Law If they Can’t Work out deals with Publishers
https://blog.googleThe Austrian legislator has just adopted significant changes to copyright law, implementing the European Copyright Directive from 2019. Google has mentioned they plan to enter into negotiations with press publishers in Austria to license their content under these new rights.
Google says that Austria’s new copyright law provides two important guiding principles. On the one hand, people and platforms can continue to link to, and use, very short extracts of press publishers’ content. At the same time, the law creates new rights for news publishers when extended previews of their work are used online. While the law does not define the scope of protected content, we will make offers for Extended News Previews (such content that may be protected by the new law) with press publishers in Austria.