Author: M.Karatas

Markus Beckedahl (left) is Editor-in-Chief of Netzpolitik.org. André Meister (right) is the site’s editor. Both men are specifically named under investigation for possible treason in Germany. A well-known German political and technical news website is received (English translation here) Two of the site’s top editors are being investigated for treason after they released classified government documents earlier this year in a nearly unprecedented letter from a German federal prosecutor. Two previous articles on Netzpolitik.org, one in February and the other in April, detail proposals for increased surveillance of social networks by the intelligence agency Federal Office for Constitutional Protection. “I…

German news publishers are picking up where the Belgians left off. It’s a now less proud tradition of suing Google for being on the list rather than choosing to opt out. This time, the publisher wants his 11% cut in Google’s revenue related to listings. The news comes from Jeff Jarvis, who calls on a group representing about half of Germany’s major news publishers to pay Google 11% of the revenue associated with listing links and descriptions of their content. It writes that it has initiated an arbitration process. As of August 1, 2013, the actual lawsuit (in German) from…

A major German publisher has allowed Google to continue using content on its news pages as stricter online copyright rules went into effect on Thursday. However, they claimed their dispute with the search giant over paying for content wasn’t over. Earlier this year, Google said it would only show material from German publishers who “opted-in” to include free snippets in Google News. The move comes after German parliamentarians passed a publisher-backed copyright law that stipulates how news aggregators such as Google can display content from other companies. Internet companies warn the law would amount to a tax on search engines,…