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
Jul 13, 2021
Penalty announced.
Sources
- Autorité de la concurrenceregulator
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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/