Google ended the dispute over compensation for the use of news articles on Tuesday. The company has made commitments to the competition authority.
Google was fined €500 million last year for failing to reach a fair agreement with French media over the publication of its stories.
The tech giant claims it recently agreed to charge for its posts with more than 150 French titles. This includes the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency, newspapers. World and Le Figaro and the news site huffingtonpost.fr.
Google also reports that an independent party is checking whether the tech group and media companies are making sufficient progress in negotiating messaging arrangements. If negotiations stall, publishers can mediate at Google’s expense.
According to Benoît Cœuré, head of the regulator Autorité de la concurrence, Google has created a framework for fair negotiations with the news media, with promises of “first time in Europe”.
Since 2019, new European legislation offers news media publishers the opportunity to request money from the main online platforms that publish news articles or parts thereof. For example, newspaper publishers previously complained that they could not receive advertising revenue because platforms like Google published their news.
Source: NU
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