recently, Alphabet Owned by Google Inc. and France 6 Newspapers and magazines signed a copyright agreement. this 6 The national newspapers and magazines are "Le Monde" (Le Monde) , "Le Figaro" (Le Figaro) , Liberation Daily (Liberation) , "express" (L' Express) , "observer" (L' Obs) and "International post" (Courrier International) .

allegedly, Google has also held discussions with other national and local publications. Under new European copyright rules, Publishers have the right to demand fees from online platforms that display excerpts of their stories. France was the first country in the European Union to implement the rule.

Therefore, France's competition authority has ordered Google to negotiate with French publishers and newspaper companies over compensation for the content they use online. Google objected. But the Paris appeals court gave Google no chance, The ruling of the competition authority was upheld.

At first, The biggest in the world, The most widely used search engines oppose paying publishers, It said publishers' websites would benefit more from traffic to Google. But in the end, Google has no choice, You can only sign a copyright agreement with the publisher. The Paris appeals court ordered Google to talk to French publishers about the use of their content.

A month later, Google issued a statement. Sebastien, general manager of Google in France．Misov (Sebastien Missoffe) representation: "Under the new agreement, Payments to publishers are subject to a set of standards, Including daily publications, Monthly web traffic and political and general information published by publishers.

2013 Since last year, Google has invested about 8500 Ten thousand euros (about 1 Billions of dollars) To help French media companies adapt to the shift to digital platforms. " Google is busy talking to other national and regional newspapers and magazines in France. Google plans to reach a framework agreement with print publications in France by the end of the year. Google also announced last month that it plans to form partnerships with news organizations, And will invest in it 10 Billions of dollars.

The company also plans to build a new tool on top of its existing licensing program, Pay selected publishers, To show his news in Google News and Search. But so far, On a global scale 200 None of the news organisations that have signed up to the initiative is from France. All hope that the new European copyright rules will not lead to a cold war between Google and the countries that will enact them.

(Compiled from www. latestlaws. com)

Reprinted from China Intellectual Property Network   translation: Rason group　proofread: Wang Dan

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