A number of German newspaper and magazine publishers have set legal proceedings against tech giants such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. They are asking that search engines pay them 11 percent of their gross sales, including foreign sales, that come “directly and indirectly from making excerpts from online newspapers and magazines public.”

It seems that the move is directly related to what publishers tried to get from search engines last year through Germany’s legislative process. Ultimately, publishers were not able to get what they were asking for.

The companies involved in the arbitration against Google include Axel Springer, Burda, WAZ and Müncher Merkur. Other large German publishers chose not to participate.

Germany is one country that has historically shown resistance towards Google and the products that Google has to offer. Germany would not allow the rollout of Google’s Street View without an opt-out program, meaning that over 240,000 German addresses had to be pixelated.

It seems that right now, Google is not popular among European judges and regulators. Just recently, the European Court of Justice ruled that citizens of the European Union had the “right to be forgotten,” meaning that they can request search engines remove links related to them.

For a number of years European publishers have had shakier relationships with search engines than their American counterparts. In 2007, Google de-indexed content from Belgian press trade group, Copiepresse, because of a legal battle over links and excerpts. Four years later, Belgian publishers decided that they wanted Google to index their content, and they wanted to search giant to show links to their articles.