I love these guys. A group of newspaper publishers is lashing out at Google (and other search companies) over supposed violations of copyright:

The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, whose members include dozens of national newspaper trade bodies, said it is exploring ways to "challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without fair compensation to copyright owners."

Web sites like Google and its specialized Google News service automatically pull in headlines, photos and short excerpts of articles from thousands of news sources, linking back to the publishers' own site. Google News does not currently carry advertising.

"They're building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content," Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview.

If this were actually about controlling content, these publishers would have solved it already - by blocking the various search bots in robots.txt. Since they haven't, we know it's not actually about copyright. Instead, they want (just like the telcos!) to find a way to get deep pocketed Google to make charity payments to them. Since Google's not biting, they hope to get what they want via rent-seeking.