[x-pubpol] France to act to force Google to pay for news

[Joly MacFie]

(via Lauren Weinstein)


France to act to force Google to pay for news

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-france-to-act-to-force-google-to-pay-for-news-links-20121029,0,1550062.story

Reuters

3:24 p.m. CDT, October 29, 2012
President Francois Hollande told Google's chief executive on Monday that
France would legislate to force the Web search engine to pay for displaying
links to news articles unless it struck a deal with French media outlets.

Press associations in France and other European countries want Google to
pay when it displays links to newspapers in Internet searches.

In reply, Google has threatened to stop indexing articles from the French
press.

"The president ... said he hoped negotiations between Google and press
organs could begin quickly and conclude before the end of the year,"
Hollande's office said in a statement after his meeting with Google CEO
Eric Schmidt.

If no deal were struck, France would press ahead with a law similar to one
being drafted in Germany, the statement said.

This month Brazil's National Association of Newspapers stopped using search
engine aggregator Google News, arguing that it refused to pay for content
and was driving traffic away from newspaper sites.


Copyright © 2012, Reuters
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