Google News Norway removes thumbnails
Saturday, 9 December 2006, 21:04
Poynter’s E-media Tidbits is reporting that Google has bowed to the Norwegian media businesses’ association, Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, in the latest copyright row involving Google News.
It appears that Google has only removed thumbnail images originating from media organisations that are members of MBL.
Entry Filed under: Google News, Journalism, Norway
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1. Kristine Lowe&hellip | 28 November 2006 at 2158
+ the vast diversity of stuff available online leaves all the room in the world for this, but sticking to the top headlines – it’s certainly food for thought… Update 9/12: Google News Norway removes images (via Martin Stabe
2. kpaul mallasch | 10 December 2006 at 0456
Heh. As a small, independent new media publisher, I was *more than* happy that Google News picked up my site (and that they include my pics as thumbnails…) They’re doing a lot better job, imho, than the Newspaper owned Topix.net.
-kpaul
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