Brazil press owners seek money from Google

Brazilian press owners are preparing to challenge internet search giants such as Google and Yahoo by demanding a share of the billions such companies get for indexing all the content, news and opinion pieces from their papers. Nelson Sirotsky, president of Brazil's Newspapers National Association, says he is going to enter into a dialogue with Brazilian and international search engine companies. He argues that the search companies are guilty of embezzlement since they are presenting material they didn't produce themselves and then keeping money that doesn't belong to them. Some Brazilian newspapers and magazines are already preventing search engines from accessing their copy. (Via Brazil News.net)