Google fined 500 million euros for news copyright in France

Tram Ho

The Antitrust Administration in France recently fined the giant Google an amount of $ 593 million, and gave a period of 2 months for Google to come up with a plan to handle the issue of royalties for content. content produced by domestic publishers, otherwise, a heavier penalty will be enforced.

A statement by the French antitrust authority said that Google did not cooperate in negotiations with technology companies and publishers in the country. “When the regulator imposes obligations on a company, that company must carefully comply, both in spirit and in writing. In this case, unfortunately, it did not happen. like that,” said Isabelle de Silva, director of the Antitrust Administration in France.

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The document shows that Google violated a ruling last April. The ruling requires Google to negotiate with local companies and publishers “in good faith” licensing agreements for the reuse of copyrighted content. However, Google did not comply with the ruling and has so far been fined 500 million euros ($593 million). If no resolution is available to content publishers within 2 months, Google may face additional fines of up to 900,000 EUR per day, or 1.1 million USD. .

In its latest response, Google expressed its “disappointment” over the French decision. ” The fine disregarded our efforts to reach an agreement during the period of negotiation,” a Google spokesperson said, adding that Google was the only company that had disclosed the terms of the deal. Neighboring rights agreement on news.

Earlier in 2019, the European Union amended its supplementary law to create regulations related to the “relevant rights” of news, requiring major technology platforms to negotiate and share part of the news. revenue with local news producers using copyrighted content.

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Initially, Google sought to avoid domestic news by not showing the content and links that were displayed in the Google News app in France. However, the watchdog found this could be an abuse of a dominant position and ordered Google to stop breaking the law, and required Google to negotiate with publishers for a revenue share. in the reuse of copyrighted news.

Despite being required to comply with local laws, according to an investigation by the watchdog, negotiations over publishers’ revenue sharing were rejected, leading to Google being with a fine of EUR 500 million and will gradually increase if continued non-compliance.

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Source : Genk