Will the French Competition Authority order Google to negotiate their remuneration for all neighboring publishers in the name of their neighboring rights? The meeting held on Thursday for three and a half hours at the Authority, in the presence of the two parties, gives hope to those involved in the press. According to Les Echos , investigators from the Competition Authority have indeed called on the institution to take provisional measures against Google, attacked in October by the press for abuse of a dominant position. According to our information, the Authority's decision will not be released until mid-March, in the best of cases.
Press publishers believe that Google does not respect the spirit of the law on neighboring rights, which entered into force in France on October 24, 2019. At the end of September, the search engine had announced that it would stop posting the photos, videos and short extracts from press articles, that is, a degradation of their presence in search results ...
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