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Google Fined €500 Million in France Over Bad Faith Negotiations With News Outlets

posted by janrinok on Thursday July 15 2021, @06:21AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes:

Google fined €500 million in France over bad faith negotiations with news outlets:

Google is being fined €500 million by France's Competition Authority over bad faith negotiations with news publishers, CNBC reports. Google agreed to comply with France's orders in January in order to get French publishers to participate in its News Showcase product.

Google is accused of failing to negotiate in good faith with news publishers.

France was one of the first European nations to put into action the EU Copyright Directive, which came into force in 2019 and allows publishers to request remuneration for displaying their content. Last year, the country told Google it must negotiate licensing fees with publishers or face penalties. But a coalition of French news publishers complained to the competition authority that the company was not following orders.

"We hoped that the negotiation would be fruitful and that the actors would play the game. Google still does not seem to accept the law as it was voted, but it is not up to an actor, even a dominant one, to rewrite the law," the authority's president, Isabelle de Silva, told Politico.

See also: Google hit with record $593 million fine in France in news copyright battle and https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/13/google-fined-592m-in-france-for-breaching-antitrust-order-to-negotiate-news-copyright-fees/

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 15 2021, @09:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 15 2021, @09:26AM (#1156470)

    And here we have a zealot from the Leibstandarte Silicon Valley in all their nazi american dishonour, promoting fascism, law breaking for profit etc etc, with no thought to being a decent human being, and upholding the standards that any decent human being would hold themselves to. Watch as he's joined by his fellow nazis, such as Khallow for example.

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  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Thursday July 15 2021, @10:05AM (1 child)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Thursday July 15 2021, @10:05AM (#1156474)

    'scuse me, have you read the law that was used to justify that levy on Google?

    Could you please do and check back?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 15 2021, @10:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 15 2021, @10:14AM (#1156476)

      These included demanding to discuss partnerships only in the context of its own news product, called Showcase; refusing to take into account indirect revenues generated by press material to asses remuneration; and refusing to negotiate with companies that didn't publish "general and political information."

      Those are fair and bona fide negotiation by any law, right?