General
Google strikes $98 million deal with French publishers, leaving independent media angered
Google has agreed to pay $US76 million ($98 million) over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents show.
Key points:
- Agence France-Press and other media outlets are angry about the deal which they say is unfair and opaque
- Australia is seeking to impose a digital media code of conduct that would force Google to pay for news
- Under the French deal publishers will have to sign up for the Google News Showcase platform, recently launched in Australia
The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d’information generale (APIG), a lobby group representing most major French publishers, was announced previously, but financial terms had not been disclosed.
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