Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 attends the opening press conference on January 28, 2009. US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad. The enemy? Websites that use their stories without paying for them. Murdoch launched a broadside against Internet giant Google, the first week of April, 2009 whose Google News website is one of the most popular news aggregators on the Internet. "Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked Murdoch, the owner of newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States, where his holdings include The Wall Street Journal and New York Post. Getty Images logo Getty Images 7 months ago

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 attends the opening press conference on January 28, 2009. US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad. The enemy? Websites that use their stories without paying for them. Murdoch launched a broadside against Internet giant Google, the first week of April, 2009 whose Google News website is one of the most popular news aggregators on the Internet. "Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked Murdoch, the owner of newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States, where his holdings include The Wall Street Journal and New York Post.

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