The battle for the enforcement of the neighboring rights law for the press is not over. In early April, the Competition Authority had forced Google to negotiate "in good faith" with press publishers the conditions of their remuneration, negotiations limited to a period of three months. But this Thursday, Google announced to appeal. “We decided to appeal to have more legal clarity on certain elements of the decision. Of course, our priority is to continue discussions with French publishers on the way forward, ” said a spokesperson for the American company.
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The French Competition Authority had thus decided that "neither the indexing, nor the classification, nor the presentation of the protected content included by Google on its services" should be modified until it renders its decision on the merits , which will take several years. Google believes that this point could prevent it from improving its search engine in France, and this
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