Neighboring right: now Google will have to pay the French press, and provide them with data
Google’s failure is complete. This morning, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the decision by French Competition Authority to force Mountain View to negotiate in good faith a fair compensation for publishers and press agencies’ neighboring rights. The Court also gave arguments that will enable the press to obtain data from Google about its use of press publications. The French press seized the Competition Authority in December 2019 for abuse of a dominant position, following Google’s refusal to negotiate a fair remuneration for their neighboring right, in September 2019. This approach was validated this morning by the Paris Court of Appeal. The decision of the Competition Authority of April 2020 – which was adopted on the basis of the request from the press – is also validated on all points.…