{"id":113017,"date":"2014-10-28T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=113017"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:04:15","slug":"google-to-face-internet-copyright-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/113017-google-to-face-internet-copyright-levy.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to face Internet copyright levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s new digital commissioner Guenther Oettinger is mulling an internet copyright levy, taking aim at Google, he told German newspaper Handelsblatt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Google uses and processes intellectual property from the EU, the EU can protect this property and can demand a charge,&#8221; Oettinger was quoted as saying by the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming commissioner added that such legislation could be introduced as early as 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger said last month Google&#8217;s market power could be limited, adding that he would work to ensure that the search engine&#8217;s services preserve neutrality and objectivity.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Google news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/112813-google-partners-with-oxford-university-for-ai.html\">Google partners with Oxford University for AI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/112719-google-launches-new-email-service.html\">Google launches new email service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/112667-google-music-player-reads-your-mood.html\">Google music player reads your mood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s new digital commissioner Guenther Oettinger is mulling an internet copyright levy, taking aim at Google<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":89711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,12909,167],"class_list":["post-113017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-european-union","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}