Google Agrees To $76 Million Settlement With French Publishers

Google Agrees To $76 Million Settlement With French Publishers  

BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, FEB 13, 2021 - 8:45 

Google has reached a payout agreement with an association of French publishers after a years-long battle over how it reuses snippets of their content, according to new documents seen by Reuters. 

The US tech company agreed to pay L'Alliance de la presse d'information generale (APIG) $76 million over three years.

Last year, APIG explained how Google "unilaterally decided that it would no longer display article extracts, photographs, and videos within its various services, unless the publishers give it to them, free of charge," adding that "in practice, the vast majority of press publishers have granted Google free licenses for the use and display of their protected content, without negotiation and without receiving any remuneration from Google." 

The two documents, seen by Reuters, provided a framework agreement which says Google "is ready to pay $22 million annually in total to a group of 121 national and local French news publications after signing individual licensing agreements with each of them." 

The second document outlines a settlement agreement where Google has agreed to pay $10 million to APIG "in exchange for their commitment to end all present and future potential litigation tied to copyright claims over the duration of the three-year agreement," Reuters said. 

For French publishers to receive compensation, they must sign an individual licensing agreement with Google.

The documents show France's reference daily Le Monde will receive $1.3 million at the top end of the list. At the bottom, local paper La Voix de la Haute Marne will receive $13,741. There was no method displayed within the documents that addressed how the amounts were calculated. 

Within the framework agreement, APIG members will use and feed Google's news products. The resolution comes as France implemented a copyright rule under a recent European Union law, called "neighboring rights". This law forces big tech giants to pay news publishers to compensate them for reusing their content. 

French publishers who aren't part of the deal were outraged and criticized it for being vague and not abiding by the "neighboring rights." 

Google now pays 450 publications worldwide to feed their content into its Google News Showcase program. This will allow struggling news organizations to generate additional revenues despite a dropoff in advertising revenues. 

The new service has already been launched in the UK and Argentina, and Google is preparing to launch News Showcase in France, Canada, and Japan.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/google-agrees-76-million-deal-french-publishers

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