By Tony Connelly

The European Commission is to examine whether Google News should pay newspapers for displaying snippets of their articles after a handful of leading news publishers argued that the tech giant was profiting from their content for free.

New copyright proposals unveiled by the commission will “consider whether any action specific to news aggregators is needed”. It comes in response to concerns from a number of Europe’s largest publishers that Google News was holding them to ransom and profiting from their copyrighted content.

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Source: The Drum