Members of Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, voted in favor of the copyright law 293 to 243 on Friday. Three parliamentarians abstained. The new legislation must now go to the Bundesrat for debate and then a vote.
If enacted, the law would require Internet search engines to acquire a licence in order to republish original content. Websites which post collections of articles from different sources would also be affected by the law.
The Bundestag's deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Günter Krings, said supporters of the bill sought to update the current copyright law, which made sense before the age of the Internet. But now, he said authors and publishers are unprotected from unhindered distribution of their intellectual property.
Read more: German lower house approves tighter copyright bill | News | DW.DE | 01.03.2013
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