Google won a legal battle on Thursday after Europe’s top court said publishers in Germany could not demand copyright fees since 2013 from the tech firm because the European Commission had not been notified of the German regulation. The group of publishers previously said they were demanding as much as 1 billion euros from Google-owner Alphabet in copyright fees for their news snippets and other items published by the U.S. company on the Web.
Source: Google wins legal battle with German publishers over fee demands
