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Google fined €500 mln for lack of ‘good faith’ in negotiations with French press
The French competition authority has slapped a record €500 million fine on Google for not having negotiated “in good faith” with news publishers and agencies on neighbouring rights – the remuneration for the reuse of copyrighted content they are entitled to. “When the Authority imposes injunctions on companies, they are required to apply them scrupulously”, the president of the Autorité de la Concurrence (AdlC), Isabelle de Silva, declared upon releasing the much-expected decision on Tuesday (July 13). “In this case, this was unfortunately not the case”, she added. tweet Back in 2020, the AdlC had ... (full story)