BRUSSELS—The European Union’s executive branch will propose formal legislation that would help publishers seek remuneration from news aggregators such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google news search that list snippets of articles on their website, according to internal documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. In a draft document outlining its legislative proposals to update the bloc’s copyright rules, which is expected to be formally announced in late September, the European Commission said the new EU-wide rules would hand news...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2016 07:30 UTC