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The so-called ancillary copyright for press publishers〔The terms "related rights" and "neighbouring rights" are also used, but they cannot conveniently stand on their own when not preceded by "copyright".〕 (German: ''Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger'') is a proposal incorporated in a 2012 draft of legislation proposed by the ruling coalition of the German government, led by Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to extend publishers' copyrights. The bill was agreed by the Cabinet at the end of August 2012 and submitted to parliament on 14 November 2012. It was passed by the Bundestag on 1 March 2013 by 293 to 243, following substantial changes in the week before the vote. In its original form, it would have included even short snippets of news made available by news aggregators and web search engines. The fees would be collected by a central clearinghouse. In its original form, the intended effect would have been to force Google, a leading search engine, to pay publishers fees for display of news search results, causing the bill to be dubbed a "Google tax" by some. It was agreed between the coalition parties, the CDU and the FDP in their coalition agreement for the seventeenth session of the German ''Bundestag''. It passed in the Bundesrat March 22, 2013, was published in the Bundesgesetzblatt May 14, and is to come apply from August 1, 2013 onwards. == History == German copyright law already provides for similar "related rights" in relation to other protected objects. They are regulated in sections 70 et seq. of the German Copyright Act (''Urheberrechtsgesetz''). A press release from the German Federal Association of Newspaper Publishers (German: ''Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger'' or BDZV) dated 7 May 2009 justified the demand for such a "related right" for press publishers on the grounds that press enterprises needed to defend themselves against unpaid use of their products on the Internet. This demand found its expression in the coalition agreement, which, in line 4776, states: In a speech to the Newspaper Congress of the German Federal Association of Newspaper Publishers in September 2011, the chancellor, Angela Merkel, stated that legislation on such related rights was in preparation: Merkel also announced that she would push the idea at the European level. On 5 March 2012, the joint coalition committee agreed to introduce "related rights" for press publishers as part of the third basket of the reform of the German Copyright Act.〔 〕 Within a year, the commercial use of press products on the Internet, particularly for search engine providers and news aggregators, was to be subject to a charge. There was to be the equivalent of a performing rights society for collection and distribution of the fees. One thing that remains unclear is where the line should be drawn between chargeable commercial use and private use, which was to remain free. On 14 June 2012, it became known that the German Federal Ministry of Justice had sent a draft of a bill to other ministries and lobby groups. This draft, which would insert new sub-sections 87f to 87h into the German Copyright Act is currently available on the Internet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ancillary copyright for press publishers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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