[Age of Reason]

"If Google takes intellectual property from the EU and makes use of it, the EU can protect this property and demand that Google pay for it,"

Good for the EU! I approve.

[lavaroise]

As if the brains in Europe belong to the EU... Ridiculous.

[Hugin]

Germany introduced such a scheme in 2013, a move which saw Google remove copyrighted material from media outlets represented by media industry body VG Media. However, the industry group have now backtracked by granting Google a free licence to continue to displaying that content.

Now why do you suppose that is? Companies pay to make themselves more prominent in search engine results, because it increases traffic to their sites. Google and others will simply exclude them from results. Bad for the media outlets, bad for google, and bad for users. Other than that, it's a great idea.

[livius]

Huh? so you think this is a good idea? The EU doesn’t “own” this information either.

This is a stunt by the PP, supposedly Spain’s Conservative party, to suck up to the EU, which is in the midst of a big meaningless stupid meeting (where the Pope is also going to suck up to them). The PP makes the GOPe look like the most radical of Tea Party groups.