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Bild publisher wants websites to pay for news

By Ben Fenton and Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin

Published: April 12 2009 19:46 | Last updated: April 12 2009 19:46

One of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers has lent its voice to the call for internet news aggregators such as Google to pay for using copyright material.

Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, told the Financial Times he believed it was time for new copyright laws in Europe to prevent all of the value of content being extracted by the aggregators, who make money by displaying search advertising around news material.

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