“France is the first country where Google could pay publishers for the indexing of their content. This explains the vigor with which he endeavors to oppose this process, or to slow it down for as long as possible. We wipe off the plasters. "
Lucid comment from a French editor, while discussions with Google on the implementation of a neighboring right for content producers (texts, photos, videos) have now stalled.
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Everything had started well.
After the adoption by MEPs in March 2019 of the copyright directive establishing a neighboring right for the press, France hastened to transpose the text in July of the same year.
Discussions started, before coming to an end.
Google has sought to negotiate with a few major publishers, but basically refusing to pay for content appearing in the results of its search engine.
A way of sowing discord in the united front of French publishers,
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