The plan authorizes ministers to draft a bill, which is expected to go to the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament, this summer.

The proposal addresses a debate that has raged since the early days of the Internet: Who benefits more from digital links and the traffic they generate — search engines, aggregators and other online hubs, or the sites that produce the content?

Google does not sell advertising on its German news aggregation service, which displays snippets of articles and links to the originating sites. But the company earns billions of euros from advertising on its search engine and other services.

Most German newspaper publishers, on the other hand, generate only minuscule revenue online from advertising or other sources, like so-called pay walls around their content.

为了帮助萎靡不振的网上报纸业务获得新收入来源，德国政府拟要求搜索引擎和其他互联网公司，在页面突出显示这些报纸的内容时付费给报社。

以德国总理默克尔为首的基督教民主联盟领导的联合政府上周表示，计划立法为互联网出版商制定新的版权条例。按照这项计划，网络资讯聚合器和搜索引擎如要登载报纸的全篇或者部分内容，甚至是那些出现在搜索链接中的词条，都须付费给对方。

这一计划使德国出版商备受鼓舞，他们抱怨谷歌等互联网公司从登载他们的内容中获取了巨额利润，而产生的数字业务费用只不过是九牛一毛。

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