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French watchdog tells Google to pay news firms for using their content
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IANS | 09 Apr, 2020
The French anti-competition watchdog on Thursday asked tech giant Google
to negotiate with publishers and news agencies on paying them proper
remuneration for re-using their content on its platforms.
The
French ‘Autorite de la Concurrence' body in a ruling granted requests
for urgent interim measures presented by press publishers and the news
agency AFP.
"It requires Google to negotiate with publishers and
news agencies the remuneration due to them under the law relating to
neighbouring rights for the re-use of their protected contents,' the
authority said in a statement.
The ruling came on a complaint
lodged in November 2019 by several unions representing press publishers
of practices implemented by Google.
The French authority found
that "Google's practices on the occasion of the entry into force of the
neighbouring rights law were likely to constitute an abuse of a dominant
position, and caused serious and immediate harm to the press sector".
"It
thus requires Google, within three months, to conduct negotiations in
good faith with publishers and news agencies on the remuneration for the
re-use of their protected contents," the statement further said.
Google was yet to react to the ruling.
The
French watchdog said the negotiation must retroactively covers the fees
due as of the entry into force of the law on October 24, 2019.
France's
competition watchdog in December last year slapped Google with a $166
million fine for abusing its position in the online search advertising
market.
The French competition watchdog said it considers that
the Google Ads operating rules imposed by Google on advertisers are
established and applied under non-objective, non-transparent and
discriminatory conditions.
In March, European Union's antitrust
regulators fined Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for abusing
its dominance in the online search market by blocking rivals.
Brussels
in 2018 hit Google with a record 4.3 billion euros fine for abusing the
dominant market position of its Android operating system for mobile
phones.
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