Why Google will never pay for content

Published March 7th, 2007


Written by Donna Bogatin

“I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for!

Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make money solely on the backs of other people’s content,” without paying for it, as Thomas Rubin, Associate General Counsel for Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secrets, Microsoft decried today at the Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting.

I have asked just such a thing, many a time, at this Digital Markets Blog and in my recent Fast Company Magazine Google debate.

Below is an excerpt from my response to the Fast Company magazine question: Is Google due for a fall?”

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