Google Inc. (GOOG) andothernews aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.
The goal is to create a mixed news feed that would show what is happening on Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and any other social network that supports the standard.
Earlier this year, the FCC reclassified Howard Stern's radio program as a newsshow so that he could interview Arnold Schwarzenegger and not be required to provide equal time to the other 134 candidates for California governor.