Spanish publishers move to halt Google News closure

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Ok, I agree that is a bit mean. But seriously folks, a snippet is not a 'royalty worthy' bit of a copyrighted work. But getting your traffic from Google, now THAT has some value. So the publishers are finally figuring out that this equation is "Publisher gives rights to publish snippets created by Google on its Google News page, Google publishes those and sends the resulting traffic to the publishers site IF SOMEONE CLICKS ON IT."

There alternative is to pay some web site to put their snippets on it and train users to go to that site to figure out if they want to visit the paper's web site. Not going to be cheap for the publishers, that is for sure.