Another interesting little law being proposed in Italy, another law that is quite obviously aimed at . The oddity here is that this law attempts to solve a problem that was actually solved some, ooooh, 15 years ago. For if you don't want Google to include your website in its index then there's a very simple method of doing so. Simply tell robots.txt on your site that the Google bot is not to spider your site. So why another law is needed about this I'm really not sure: ...a Government proposal in a Law Decree named “Destinazione Italia” (“Destination Italy”) that will consider the linking as a communication to the public in connection with the news articles (amending article 65 of the Italian Copyright Law). This is the article 14 of the decree:
Reported by Forbes.com 5 hours ago.
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