Finalfine · Neighbouring rights / competition
Google fined €500M over news-copyright bargaining
€500M
≈ $540M at the time
Autorité de la concurrence
France · 2021
Status: Final
What happened
France's competition authority fined Google for failing to negotiate in good faith with news publishers over payment for news snippets under the EU's neighbouring-rights rules.
How it affected users
The dispute undermined the economics of the journalism that users rely on for news.
Status timeline
Jan 19, 2023
The Paris Court of Appeal recorded Google's withdrawal of its appeal, leaving the decision final.
Sources
- Autorité de la concurrence: EUR 500M fine over related-rights injunctions (21-D-17)regulator
- Autorité de la concurrence: 2021 decisions that were appealed, and their outcomeregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Google fined €500M over news-copyright bargaining," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2021-07-13. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/google-france-news-copyright-2021/