European publishers this week celebrated several major victories in their multi-year battle to make Google and other news aggregators pay for the use of their news snippets.
On Wednesday, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced that it would reopen Google News in Spain, eight years after shutting down a service due to a Spanish rule that required Google to pay for links and excerpts that cite stories from Spanish newspapers. and other vehicles.
Earlier this week in France, Google agreed to a new sheet of licensing deals with publishers across the country, with the Silicon Valley giant paying news outlets and publishers to use its copyrighted content in its Google Search, Google News and Discover. Google also stopped trying to challenge a French competition authority’s decision last July that fined the company $527 million (€500 million) for its abusive business practice in a bid to protect copyrights with French publishers.
Google News was shut down in Spain in 2014 after the government required all online aggregators to pay publishers for news clippings. Last year, Spain introduced new legislation that allows media outlets to deal directly with the tech giant, rules that bring the country more in line with other EU regulations.
Europe is not the only place where governments are forcing tech giants to change their approach to news. Australia passed a law earlier this year requiring Google and Facebook to pay publishers for featured content, and Canada has introduced similar legislation.
Last month, the UK government unveiled plans for a similar crackdown on Silicon Valley as part of its new media regulator, the Digital Markets Unit, which forced online aggregators to pay news providers for their online content and impose fines. heavy, up to 10 percent on platforms Global revenue: if they can’t do it.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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