{"id":19310,"date":"2021-07-13T08:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2021-07-13T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:33:48","slug":"google-fined-e500m-by-french-competition-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/07\/13\/google-fined-e500m-by-french-competition-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fined \u20ac500m by French competition authority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google has been hit with a \u20ac500m (\u00a3427m) fine by France’s competition authority for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with news organisations over the use of their content.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The authority accused Google of not taking an order to do so seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google told the BBC the decision “ignores our efforts to reach an agreement”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The fine is the latest skirmish in a global copyright battle between tech firms and news organisations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last year, the French competition authority ordered that Google must negotiate deals with news organisations to show extracts of articles in search results, news and other services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google was fined because, in the authority’s view, it failed to do this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2019, France became the first EU country to transpose a new Digital Copyright Directive into law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The law governed so-called “neighbouring rights” which are designed to compensate publishers and news agencies for the use of their material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a result, Google decided it would not show content from EU publishers in France, on services like search and news, unless publishers agreed to let them do so free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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News organisations felt this was an abuse of Google’s market power<\/a>, and two organisations representing press publishers and Agence France-Presse (AFP) complained to the competition authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google told the BBC: “We are very disappointed with this decision – we have acted in good faith throughout the entire process.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It said that it is, to date, the only company to have announced agreements on so-called neighbouring rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It added it was about to finalise an agreement with AFP that includes a global licensing agreement and payments for press publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new ruling means that within the next two months Google must come up with proposals explaining how it will recompense companies for the use of their news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Should this fail to happen the company could face additional fines of \u20ac900,000 per day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“When the authority decrees an obligation for a company, it must comply scrupulously,” said the competition authority’s Isabelle de Silva in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Here, this was unfortunately not the case,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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