Aggregator Snippets of Paywall-Protected Articles Violate Newspaper's Rights

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Unauthorized excerpts from a newspaper's paywall-protected articles violated the publisher's rights under Germany copyright law, according to a ruling by Munich's Higher Regional Court (OLG Muenchen) made public on Sept. 26. This is one of the first cases to give an indication of how judges will interpret "neighboring rights" for press publishers introduced in Germany in 2013, according to copyright lawyers who spoke with Bloomberg BNA.